The blogosphere really needs, desperately needs, a universal comment protocol that enables me to track all the comments that I post, where I post them or remotely, without me needing to remember all of the blogs I post comments on. Furthermore, in order to achieve critical mass, such a comment protocol must work across all the blog platforms (like RSS) and not require blog admins to install plugins or add-ons, or users to install browser plugins.

I’m sick of posting comments and forgetting where I posted them. I’m trying to be a good citizen of the blogosphere and engage in conversations where they happen instead of bringing them back to my place (posting about what other people are posting about), but it’s too damn hard.

I’ve tried a bunch of these services and none of them, so far, has produced anything as easy as RSS.