Comments on: How snowballs catch fire http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/09/04/how-snowballs-catch-fire/ Same old blog, brand new place Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:20:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Mike Warot http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/09/04/how-snowballs-catch-fire/#comment-1050 Mike Warot Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:41:52 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2007/09/04/how-snowballs-catch-fire/#comment-1050 "…this necessitates tracking conversations about the issues you write or care about" Technorati doesn't help tracking conversations as much as it could... like any aggregator, you end up doing keyword searches, and losing a lot of context. For example, to track this conversation, you'd use this technorati link: http://www.technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.law.harvard.edu%2Fdoc%2F2007%2F09%2F04%2Fhow-snowballs-catch-fire Or, you could guess for the googlisms that are relevant to the conversation in question... either way you're just about as efficient to keep coming back and checking for new comments on the original site. If there were a way to do RSS feeds for comments, things might be more efficient. or maybe I'm off base... --Mike-- “…this necessitates tracking conversations about the issues you write or care about”

Technorati doesn’t help tracking conversations as much as it could… like any aggregator, you end up doing keyword searches, and losing a lot of context.

For example, to track this conversation, you’d use this technorati link: http://www.technorati.com/search/http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.law.harvard.edu%2Fdoc%2F2007%2F09%2F04%2Fhow-snowballs-catch-fire

Or, you could guess for the googlisms that are relevant to the conversation in question… either way you’re just about as efficient to keep coming back and checking for new comments on the original site.

If there were a way to do RSS feeds for comments, things might be more efficient.

or maybe I’m off base…

–Mike–

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