@Social Aggregators GIVE ME MY COMMENTS!
Mar 12 2008 
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I love FriendFeed! I think it’s the next big thing and Louis Gray can back me on that with an impressive (though subjective) list of elite bloggers that are joining in on the fun. I love RSSmeme too! LinkRiver also has a space on my Firefox toolbar menu and Shyftr might be next. I’m sure you get the picture: I love aggregators!
With some of these aggregation sites, the ability to comment on a link that you and others have shared is a nicely integrated feature. It’s been a conversation starter and developer simultaneously. However with all these comments, none of these sites have the ability to post those same comments to the original article itself, thereby leaving quite a few authors ignorant of helpful tips, suggestions, and great conversations if they’re not on the site too.
I’d like to see developers take things to the next level and provide a way for authors to get access to these comments without having to register for these sites. Be it through email, or the development of some system to post these updates to the original article, it needs to done! Aggregators would be nothing without the articles that are being published everyday by these same people that they’re withholding valuable information from!
@Aggregators: Stop hogging all the attention and share the wealth of information that you have access to with others, especially with the publishers themselves!
***UPDATE: Head over to WinExtra to get Steven Hodson’s (a cranky but loveable old fart) flip-side to my idea.
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This is definitely something that has been bugging me for a while as well.
When I wrote about it a while back (http://www.lastpodcast.net/2008/01/29/next-frontier-comments/), Bret from FriendFeed commented that they had thought about this, but rejected the idea because they wanted to keep the discussion among friends.
I think that even if they just automatically pinged the original author with a short notice or through a plugin with a “hey – there are comments on your article on FF”, that would be helpful.
Problem is, though, just like on Twitter, there might be a large number of disconnected discussion about the same article among different groups of friends that don’t overlap. I’m not sure how they could solve that problem easily.
The question is how was it before, does a writer or an actor or another famous person really know, where is something bad or good things written about him.
And how shall this work today, with the influence of the internet and hereby the power of social networking.
SheGeeks, I was thinking exactly the same thing today and tweeting something to this effect after seeing one of YOUR posts that was getting a bunch of FriendFeed comments but your post did not have that many comments itself. FREE COMMENTS!
fav.or.it is a new RSS reader I reviewed recently with integrated comments that also show up on the original story.
@Adam Ostrow – I really have to give Fav.or.it another try when I get a chance, but I found the service to be very confusing when I tinkered with it.