The problem
FriendFeed aggregates your blog posts from WordPress.com. Naturally, people prefer to comment on your post at FriendFeed – it’s quicker, easier and more fun. However, you would like to see an indication of this activity back at the original blog post.
The solutions
You could self-host your blog using software from WordPress.org. This allows you to install plugins such as FriendFeed comments. But you’re at WordPress.com because you don’t want to self-host, right? So you just have to live with the absence of useful plugins. My advice: don’t try discussing issues like this one in the WordPress.com forums unless you’re the kind of person who enjoys comment threads at YouTube.
For intelligent, mature and constructive discussion go to FriendFeed of course, where Lars writes:
How hard would it be to make a web service that reads the RSS feed from you blog, accesses FriendFeed via the API, identifies comments on FriendFeed related to your blog posts, and reposts them on your blog? If you want to, you could also keep track of “likes”…
Lets find out – using Ruby!
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