Getting Down to Business

My friend Patrick wrote up a funny little post about an IM conversation we had yesterday. Besides the fact that he is getting damn old (he's not really, mind you), I found the whole discovery process interesting:

First, some background, Patrick and I worked together at WPTV around 2001-2002. He had a brief stint in New York where we would hang from time to time, but since then, we largely keep in touch via the intertubes.

1. I IM him a link, followed by a quick conversation
2. I follow link, buy pants, twitter the link
3. This morning, check my twitter feeds, see that he's twittered about his blog post
4. I try to comment, but can't figure out how to log in to do so (we should discuss that offline, Patrick)
5. I try to trackback, but Blogger doesn't support that (boo!)
6. So, I write this blog post
7. Patrick will probably find out about it via this blog's RSS feed (but, I'm just guessing)

I have two thoughts about this. One, it's super cool that we're able to keep in touch in such dynamic and constantly evolving ways. Two, it's super annoying that there's no (perfected) central location to manage all of this.

I'm still figuring out how to deal with comments on this blog and am considering writing a post today replying to several questions asked in the comments of various posts. Of course, if I do that, and people comment, then I'll need to somehow reply to those... this could spiral out of control! I'm not convinced at all that posting a comment on the same, old post is the best way to reply to a specific comment. The person likely has no idea that I responded and readers are missing out on what could be interesting and useful dialog.

Ah, I suppose I need to look for something a little more robust than Blogger.