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by Phillip Pearson.
Original Post: Conversations, comments, wikis, and weblogs
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I started the Topic Exchange for a reason: tracking conversations.
On a mailing list, it's trivial to follow a conversation because all the messages are in one place. You have 'thread next' and 'thread back' links and can follow those to see everything anyone has said on the topic.
On weblogs, however, when you arrive at a post and want to read more about it, it's not as easy. With any luck, it will link back to someone else's post (that's the 'thread back' link), but it's hard to go forward. You can look at its comments or trackbacks, but often people reply to posts without pinging the post they reply to.
The idea with the Topic Exchange is that people ping a channel when they write about something, and then you can browse the conversation by looking at everything in one place.
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