RSS is probably a good way to aggregate content that you pay for, but except for a few squirrelly individuals with subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal, who is paying for periodical content on the web?

I agree with you, Winston. The blogosphere is a wonderfully extensible virtual salon, and we can’t have a salon without conversation and personal relationships.

As we roll along, blog rolls growing exponentially, the waistband of time continuing to shrink, RSS feeds becoming more de rigeur, it is so easy to fall into a trap of writing, glancing at feeds, and skipping the single most important thing that blogging has done for most of us — that is the building of relationships, one at a time, the sum of which results in community. For me, relationships need at least two dimensions, communications to and from. And that means comments.

I might not have a post every day of interest to you or others, but it is comforting to know that all of you are there, and by implication, that our community is alive and well, by your occasional comments.

The word synergy get misused, abused, and overused in many contexts, but the concept is alive and well in the blogosphere if we but fully participate.

Translation of the above paragraphs: comments is good.