mtl3p

First - let’s call yesterday’s trick Step 1

Okay. As Seb mentioned that he was picking up this this use of delicious (I actually mentioned it to him when he was last in Montreal 3-4 weeks ago), I realized that I would subscribe to Seb’s “comment” rss feed in delicious in a second. It’s not just a way to keep track of my comments as I suggested yesterday, it’s a way to hear more about what other people are thinking = Step 2. IMHO this is a much more interesting feed than seeing someone’s entire delicious feed. It’s more interesting because they are putting more of themselves, more thought, time and energy into their comments than just adding a bookmark.

It’s obviously not just another way to keep track of my comments OR another way to hear what people are thinking: It’s an alternative/additional way to blog =Step 3. I should show *you* the “reader” where I am commenting so that you can know what I’m thinking, where I’m going, and what I’m adding to those conversations. And the nice thing about it is that it is automated (=doesn’t take up any more of the blogger’s time once s/he has set it up). Kind of a good mini-solution to the problem of time/priorites that we were discussing earlier (I know that there are a bunch of things that I have in my “toblog” list in delicious).

So that has me ftp-ing to my server (thanks again Mina!) to install MT-RSSFeed. I’ll probably have to ask mir to help me out in the morning.

The other thing it makes me think of (being long-winded here) is how it is kind of the other side of trackbacks. Trackbacks are the solution posed to the following problem: If I read someone’s post and I like it, I’ll comment on it. If I *really* like it, I’ll post about it on my own blog (instead of commenting on it). Trackbacks are a kinda crappy solution to that. Maybe this is a (temporary) solution to the other side/end of it? I guess a better solution would be to put in a URL directly in a field when you comment and the blog would send you’re blog an ping with a link (trackback or smthng else). Till then I’ll start with this. Sad thing is, I bet quick-moving Hugh (I would say “precocious” if he weren’t a few years older than me) and a bunch of the rest of you will set this up on your own blogs before I can figure out how to set it up for myself :-(

UPDATE: Seb pointed me to his request for this feature (made last year). BTW: I’m not the Michael he’s referring too in his entry.

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