Summary: As a follow-up to my summary of Tom Coates material I note Lilia Efimova's summary(Blogologue about blogologue) and, via her summary, the one in Microdocs.

Microdocs points to the complexity of a blogologue (yes, as compared to a threaded discussion but even as compared to Tom Coates' commented and diagrammed depiction in his article Discussion and Citation in the Blogosphere).

In material derived, primarily from Microdocs and Tom Coates, Lilia notes differences in types of blogologue contribution:

They describe stories as an interplay between four types of blog posts:

Lengthy opinion and molding of a topic around between three to fifteen links with one of those links the instigator of the story;

Vote post where the blogger agrees or disagrees with a post on another site;

Reaction post where a blogger provide her/his personal reaction to a single post on another site;

Summation post where the blogger provide a summary of various blogs and perspectives of where a blog story has got to by now.

This story goes on describing the how blogosphere stories start, grow and die. Even a summary would be too long, so I leave it to your own reading. The bottom line is blogs cannot be read in isolation from each other. Blog stories are understood and appreciated in aggregate and not in isolation.

Finally, Microdocs suggests further steps as we pursue the furtherance of our understanding of the evolving nature of blogologues:

In the blogging world, anyone can publish a blog post. It is through this voting procedure and through comments and opinions being issued on other blogs that my blog gains a context and gains "authorization". One must treat a blog as being totally untrue or untested until such time as it has gone through the fire of being cited. Locations like Daypop, Feedster and Blogdex become very important tools. If you want to know the context and the validity of a particular blog, you need to read all others. You only make sense of an individual post in the context of all other posts in the story.

What we need is a site that will provide summaries of blogologues, provide all citations, have a summary of each, the type of blog post (vote, summary, opinion, reaction) so that we can follow stories far more easily. There is a task for Daypop, Blogdex, Feedster or Popdex.