Writing blogs is easy but when it comes to follow conversations through comments, it’s a pain. I often forgot about all the conversations I’ve started on many blogs; that’s too bad.

Sure, there are some services that helps you tracking all your blog conversations, but none of them is really convenient.

All these services have many flaws, making them totally useless in my regard. The process of subscribing to comments, get notified through RSS and replying make you navigate through different places.

But there is a system we all use to keep track of conversations: the venerable email. Gmail already organize your emails as conversations, it would be the perfect place — not to mention the fact that writing a comment in a web form is a bit of a pain; no spell checking, no draft saving.

I’d just like the comfort of email to follow and reply to blog conversations. I don’t want to go to a specific website just to do that; I don’t even want to go back to the original web site where the conversation started.

I’m thinking about implementing such service. Of course, the ideal way would be for blogging platforms to support the service instead of just email notifications but I guess providing a Wordpress plugin would be a good start; Wordpress has a huge market share among bloggers.

That said, I’m also wondering why the popular MyBlogLog is not providing a conversation tracking service, this is definitely their core business.

UPDATE (09-10-2007): I recently discovered Disqus, a YC-funded company that creates a dedicated forum based on your blog comments. Comments tracking is not yet a solved problem.

UPDATE (09-05-2008): Apparently, Disqus got the reply by email feature. I have good ideas sometime.