DLTQ.org - by Raymond M. Kristiansen

After a chat with Michael Meiser this morning I have been thinking further on the topic of conversations. How we can continue them, across time, on different arenas.

For instance, a discussion thread on the videoblogging yahoogroups from 4 months back - where is this thread documented? How is it documented? How can I use some of the qualified points of view that were expressed in that thread in other situations? How would you do it? Myself, I read the messages through my g-mail account where I have the messages in this group in its own folder/label. To go from the email in gmail to the url of the post on yahoo.com - how? If I have an url I can link to, it becomes much easier to transcend the discussion from within the yahoogroups and onto other areas.

Also, there is the archive of the blog entries I make, and the archive of the media I have published, both in terms of just uploading a file to a server folder or blip.tv, and actually pointing to it in a blog entry or email. Tagging the files internally in these clusters would work, but there is no structure for tagging a file on my server space as such.

One solution I have tried is to use del.icio.us. On my dltqvlog account I pointed to different files and blog entries. The good thing about this approach is that I can keep my own tags there, like uglyspaces, and I can use a different tagset/category on my blog. I gradually stopped using del. this way, but I am considering it again.

Meiser mentioned co.mments and how he constantly uses it these days. He is a good commenter - when he writes comments, they are sometimes very long and elaborate. Those comments deserve more attention than the life-span of that single post, which on most blogs is very low. Mefeedia also has "collections" coming up, where we as users can create collections of media from all kinds of sources.

There are many approaches to activating the archive - and I am not sure which ones work best. What do you think?