So if anyone, readers and bloggers alike, wants to share interesting links (that they think contribute to the conversation of making tech easy and interesting), tag your del.icio.us bookmarks with ‘techiteasy’!

Expect it by tomorrow.

In above comments you said that “if you just follow my comments in the blog, you don’t see all the conversation taking place”. What do you mean by this? Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

I think everyone remembers how difficult it was to go through all the blogs and news sites you followed and tried to see if there was something new there. Fortunately this was such a huge problem that someone came up with solutions, like RSS. I guess we’d need something like this for blog comments too. As you say Matthias, it is way too time consuming right now.

Yes, Jeremy, I think that staying to close our readers is important. The problem, of course, is that it’s difficult when your readers stay so far away, ie we don’t know what they want. =)

I wish I can comment your blog, but it’s in German and I don’t speak the first word of it – quite unfortunately, as one third of business in Europe occurs in German.

About answering comments: yes indeed, I believe staying close to our readers is THE key to succeed in the blogosphere as well as in the real world (with clients or customers). That’s why we tend to answer most comments (when there’s something to add of course) on Tech IT Easy.

What do you think, Kari?

Here another idea about commenting on blogs: Reading (many) blogs is easy and easily you jump from one blog to another. Those many links in and among blogs are an important factor of success.

But it’s different with comments: Once you have commented on a blog, you should remember that and return later to see if there are comments following your own post and how the debate is going on (often enough nothing further has happened).

In my opinion this is very time consuming, relatively complicated and sometimes disappointing.

So what I do as a blog reader: Today I comment only on a few blogs (for exemple here!), where I can be sure to get an answer by the blogger himself or other commentators (there is a real conversation).

As a blog writer in most cases I answer a comment by email, sometimes with an admin-comment on my blog and sometimes with a comment on the blog of the commentator (to encourage further mutual reading).

Thanks for your feedback. I’m sorry I can’t change the layout of my blog as Tech IT Easy’s hosted on WordPress. I’ll remember this for the moment we move to our own repository.

The most important thing are readers. And over time the number of readers might (should) grow.

For me and my blogging the most encouraging thing are lots of new contacts. If you just follow my comments in the blog, you don’t see all the conversation taking place.

And one final remark concerning this blog: Commmenting here would be easier if this tiny little box I’m writing in would be larger. There is so much empty space on the right hand side – can’t you change that in favour of your commentors?

I think several developers from WordPress, being quite in disagreement with the road map, has gone to create the Habari project – which is supposed to bring comments on stage rather than leave it in the backstage. Time will tell if Habari solves the problem or not.

And thank you for your controversial analysis regarding the cornerstone technology in the Web 2.0 era. As far as I’m concerned, I would say RSS is rather a Web 3.0 or next web as opposed to current web, technology. Google makes money from readers visiting sites containing content viewing ads. Because of RSS, web surfers don’t get to see ads anymore.

Hence the potential acquisition of Feedburner by Google for instance: Google has felt RSS is a technology that may potentially harm its adwords & advertising revenue model and is adapting to an upcoming trend.