You should hook in a disqus API (if it exists) or roll your own email notifications of a replies to comments. You'll find people are more cordial when they are

You should hook in a disqus API (if it exists) or roll your own email notifications of a replies to comments. You'll find people are more cordial when they are responding to a comment via email. It makes people think to be more professional. That's a feed, but per instance, per user. More powerful, imho. Backtype already gets of feed of my news.YC comments. I see them in friendfeed, but not the replies. You should talk to Paul Buchheit about SUP too http://code.google.com/p/simpleupdateprotocol/ http://code.google.com/p/simpleupdateprotocol/