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Q. What do you get when you cross blogging and chat?

A. 3bubbles

As Stowe Boyd posted on his blog, “The model is to support the integration of chat into blogs: a chat room for your blog, even one for every post. Imagine that next to your post’s “comments (2) | trackbacks (1)” there was an additional “chat (5)” indicating that 5 people were discussing that post, right now.

In theory it sounds pretty good as anything to facilitate conversation is always welcome, but in reality I don?Äôt see this making a big impact on blogging and here’s why. In order for a chat room to have any impact on blogging there has to be a critical mass of people at any particular post for there to be anybody actually chatting.¬? I don?Äôt know what that magic number is, but I don?Äôt think that there are many blogs that get the kind of traffic that would precipitate a vibrant chat discussion.¬? Making the chat discussions persistent so that people could see what has already been discussed might help, but I doubt it.

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