Library clips

When I feel a discussion in the blogosphere has simmered down I like to assemble all my paper print out’s of the discussion and organise them as a conversation thread and staple it together like a book.

(Sometimes blog posts review a popular meme and list all the links of the discussion in a conversational order, but this is just a bonus.)

At the moment I can’t seem to do this electronically using a bookmarking service, ie. I can’t order my bookmarks to make a conversation thread.

Sure I can give similar documents the same tag, but certain documents within that tag are like a ping-pong discussion across blogs. I guess I could later on pick out these posts and then put them in a new tag, but then I would want to manually sort them to make a cohesive discussion thread, which the current bookmarking services don’t support. To push this further I’d also like to have these discussion posts in a one page running thread.

I guess I could cut n’paste each post into a linear thread and save it as a webpage via a service like Pasta or Wetaste. But I’d rather this happen much more easier, apparently Frassle provides this feature to some extent, but I’m not sure I follow it properly.

There has been plenty of this talk in the blogosphere (I collect them in a del.icio.us tag: Blog_conver.) These posts are moreso about tracking a conversation, (looking forward to see Blogtrace when it’s ready), whereas I feel I have the tools to track the conversation, I now want to be able to collect and present my findings in a linear thread.

I wanted to write this as a comment in on of my earlier posts, but I can’t seem to write a comment in one of my own blog posts…hmmmm

I forgot to add that Blogdigger is a perfect example of a service where you can develop an automated blog (which is also searchable and generates searh query RSS feeds…what a tool!!)

It would be good to be able to label the raw feed links in the right-hand side panel…the only other thing is that you can’t customise the presentation to suit your content (I remember Roll up - no longer operating - had great presentation features.)

Someone left a comment on a post in my blog, I need more detail from them, do I write them a personal email or do I respond by leaving a comment in the same post in my blog…if I do this I don’t think they’ll will be aware unless they browse the site again or subscribed to rss comments for that individual post (they may have only come across my site by accident or because I came up in one of there SDI searches, in this case they probably won’t visit again)

It would be good for visitors of your blog to be able to subscribe to an email for comments on individual posts…RSS for comments at the post level is great but I don’t think many people would use it as these types of feeds are only active usually for a couple of weeks and then you have to remember to delete it from your RSS reader, although I think RSS for all comments is essential for your favourite blogs.

…I think I’ll write them an email as they are not a regular reader of my blog (especially since it’s only a new blog), I just don’t think they will see a reply to their comment