Blog 2.0

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Compared to something like Usenet, weblogs in general suck as a discussion medium. There's issues with discussing on someone's journal, rather than discussing in a neutral space, and there's the fact that any conversation scrolls off the bottom of the page in short order, effectively ending the debate. It's also impractical to browse old posts for content . Where livejournal is concerned, comment emails help with the first problem, but they don't solve it entirely, and there isn't an easy way around the second. So here's an alternative that I really like:

Create a blog that is a front-end to a web based bulletin board. So every article on the blog starts a thread on the bulletin board. Then you can read comment threads through the blog front page (in which case you get the threads started by the most recent articles), or you can read comment threads through the bulletin board front page (in which case you get the threads that were most recently posted to by anyone). And on the bulletin board you could let anyone start their own threads in response to the general lines of discussion, though they wouldn't necessarily show up on the front page. You could even have multiple peoples' blogs linked to the same bulletin board.

Has anyone actually seen this (or something like it) implemented anywhere? Does anyone else think it sounds kinda neat?