Did the conversation move?

Stowe Boyd has a fascinating post about how he sees the changing blog landscape. It’s a fairly technical piece but essentially he is suggesting that with the advent of ‘flow’ style applications like Twitter , the ‘conversations’ we’ve been having in blogs (which are effectively locked in silos) is now under the control of those who are commenting.  What that means is that conversations move away into other (sort of) silos and so the ability of the blog owner to fully monetize becomes a lot more difficult. I kinda but kinda not buy that part of his argument. For example, I have a FriendFeed addition to this site that shows what people are saying about blog posts here. It’s below the comments section. What’s interesting is that the conversations are not lost per se but they now ‘reside’ somewhere that’s more convenient for readers who might otherwise come here. In addition, I have a plug in tha...