cross posted diaries

The rapid aging off the front page of diaries on popular web sites (like dKos) has led some regular diarists to post on multiple sites. I assume they feel that the longer visibility of their postings on sites like this one will give more people a chance to read the item before it becomes "invisible".

The problem is that the conversation becomes fragmented. Insightful remarks on one site are not seen by those on the others. The blogosphere needs a way to dynamically link these mulitiple postings.
This way the item could appear in several places, but there would be only one conversation.

Any web gurus out there want to try to implement this?



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As someoone who does that (none / 0)

that is a damn good idea.  I have no idea how to cure it, but would love to find out how.
by Bonddad on Thu Oct 27, 2005 at 10:41:02 AM EST

The simplest way (none / 0)

would be to have a "comments off" option and have all cross-posts link to a single comments page, be it one of the group sites, the user's own blog, or a third-party service like Haloscan. I'm partial to Scoop's option-loaded comment system, but the registration process might be an obstacle to people who don't frequent the site you choose to host comments.
Yeah, I'm cynical.
by catastrophile on Thu Oct 27, 2005 at 01:01:27 PM EST


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