Blogthreads at Last!

BurningBird has announced plans to build a service that will put the thread into blogthreads. If you register your blog with her new service (which is a few months away from launch), it will automatically scour it for links to other blogs so that when Tom replies to AKMA and Jeneane replies to Tom and then Tom replies to Jeneane and then Jennifer replies to AKMA, all that will be saved and will be made reference-able and link-able as a blogthread. Excellent!

This is something we really need. In fact, I hope that BurningBird’s work will be taken up by sites that are in the business of aggregating blogs — Google? DayPop? Are you interested? — so that blogthreads can be assembled from blog entries on sites that haven’t registered with BurningBird and, most of all, so that they can be indexed and returned by the search engines. Wouldn’t it be cool to search on, say, “forgiveness” and have Google and/or DayPop tell you not only that AKMA, Tom and Jeneane have blog entries about this but that there is an extensive blogthread on the topic?

I’ve written before about this and about the broader need for a threading standard; a conversation about the broader standard continues over at QuickTopic for anyone who’s interested.

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