Dave Winer: Every time I post a comment on a weblog I have to remember to go back and see if anyone followed up. We have to figure a way to automate this. Agree or disagree?

Agree. Now, how do we do it? [[Manila]] has the nice ‘mail me any further conversation in this thread’ option. That would be a worthy addition to radiocomments.userland.com, although that particular server is already pretty busy.

[[Python Community Server]] generates RSS feeds for comments; you can follow a particular comment thread or you can track all the comments for a site. When Dave posts to [[Workbench]], he can use that.

What about [[Movable Type]] users? You can get a list of TrackBack pings on a page in RSS format … how about comments? MT will also mail the blog owner when a comment appears, so it might not be that much extra effort to mail the people who’ve posted comments.

Hey - this is brilliant. Michael Fagan is organising the topics on the Topic Exchange, in a completely unintended but incredibly sensible use of the Wiki pages that are associated with every topic.

diveintomark: New news aggregator for Windows

tima thinking outloud: TrackBack in motion

Oh, and did I mention that Aaron Cope did a Perl module to help you out when interfacing to the [[Topic Exchange]]?

Sam Ruby: Truth in advertising

Is directorio_blogs_hispanos (introduction) the first non-English topic on the [[Internet Topic Exchange]]?

Good to see it’s not mangling the foreign characters. Not sure what to do when people try making topic names with accented characters though - I don’t think they’re valid in URLs. Or are they?