I know the difference between a message board and a blog and I use both, but I wonder whether ANY of the people who create blogging tools have any knowledge of or use for the affordances of message board conversations that enable many people to discuss many topics with many other people over many days, weeks, and months. On all blogs I know of, the comments scroll off into invisibility after the posts they are attached to are replaced by new ones. Sure, if you are fanatic about a particular post, you can add a comment much later -- but who else is going to participate? This is what I want. Somebody please build a plug-in or add it to the next revision of your blogging tools. (I tried to nag Ben and Mena about this, but they were too busy.) I want to be able to SUBSCRIBE to each comment thread that interests me, SEE my list of subscribed threads when I want to, no matter how old they are, READ the new comments that have been added to my subscribed threads since the last time I read, and ADD a comment at any time. If you think in message board terms, each category is a forum (conference, folder, newsgroup) and each thread (string of comments) is a topic (item, thread). [Smart Mobs]
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