I would like something that makes Trackback between sites as easy & FAST as the "like" or "comment" button on FriendFeed. - Mitchell Tsai

i totally agree. as does tumblr. - william douglas watson from twhirl

I'd note that when I've been discussing Disqus I've been arguing for Trackback support as you are Ian (for similar reasons), although I'd never thought of it for FF before so its got me thinking. - Duncan Riley

Agreed. I am spending too much time flipping back and forth between apps trying to follow convos. Even when I am starting from GReader... - Elizabeth Albrycht

My comment from the site: "If FriendFeed had trackbacks this post would have quite a few comments. As is, it looks like no one has even read it. As for my opinion about the issue, I think allowing discussion everywhere can only be a good thing. This is how you build a community. And we all know that community is what makes or breaks any site, most especially in the user driven web2.0 world. Community is the new pr. See http://www.loiclemeur.com/engl... ; Trackbacks simply allow you to pull the different parts of your community together." - william douglas watson from twhirl

Put this on your blog too Ian ... repasting here --> I think Ian's point is that trackback as a concept could be expanded. Become the compromise between centralized and decentralized comments. If you fire a 'trackback' the comments in your post ... get 'auto' injected to the trackback target? Basically a way to have a bit more control of when comments push into an originating post (and perhaps how they do). It would be interesting on the UX front on how to best design the UI. A nested discussion thread ... with a parent node comment being the trackback ... makes the most sense. Hope that helps. - Tim Bauer

thanks for the comments everyone, looks like this kicked off a good discussion! - ian kennedy