Juri Pakaste has an interesting post on his blog about Comments on blogs. I have conflicting feelings about this issue. On the one hand I want content on my blog, its hard enought to write stuff as it is without scattering it across the web :) On the other, comments are a nice form of conversation that I would like to encourage, and being able to read many peoples different (possibly) views on a subject on one site is useful.

The one possibly novel feature I want to try to implement in my toy blog project is cross blog commenting. The idea is that if two people are using this software to run their blogs then it is possible for one of them to comment on a post on the other's blog and and have that appear as a post on their own blog. With appropriate crosslinking I could post a comment on Juri's site which would appear as a post on mine with a link to the head of the discussion on his. With multiple participating sites I could imagine quite a rich system where you could click across multiple blogs reading a thread of comments with the benefit of seeing other articles on the blogs as well, browsing being part of the benefit of blogs. In some fantasy land view perhaps the sum of the parts could be greater than the whole and you'd end up with a sort of hyper blog made up of connected crosslinking blogs.