Jon’s Radio: Feedster/Bloglines citation bookmarklets
Feedster’s Scott Rafer wrote to point out that there is a URL syntax for assembling the conversation around a blog post … drag this link … [Feedster Citations or Bloglines Citations] to your toolbar, and you can have one-click access to the conversations around any blog post you’re currently viewing. … This suggests to me that conversation tracking is becoming more deterministic. Excellent!

Nice pointer, Jon – this is a highly significant step, IMHO, because it enables an’orthogonal slice of the pie’ view, so to speak, i.e. semi-independent or parallel blog posts that in fact refer to each other or deal with the same topic can in principle be viewed as if they were a discussion thread. Not exactly, but the principle is a good one. Sometimes discussion threads are more appropriate, and sometimes blog posts are more appropriate, but each has kind of existed in a separate world, and this looks like the first steps towards harmonization, or at least letting end-users decide how to view and link conversations.