So it looks like Google is provding one of the plugins I was hoping for when I wrote the first RSS Readering piece.. They have released a Firefox Plugin that displays a list of blogs in a hovering tombstone that reference the page you are currently viewing. The tombstone rolls up form the bottom right of the Firefox window, and has a few controls: scroll, close, expand/contract. There doesn't seem to be a way to fiddle with where it pops, etc., but who cares?

This is going to be an enormous boon to me, and I bet to other bloggers or active readers. And it encroaches on the territory that I have really been relying on Technorati for. Now, if they will add any blogs llinks that I click on to my Google Search History... that would be something.

They have also added a button -- "add a comment" -- at the bottom, that allows you to create a post at a Blogger blog, if you have one, referencing the page you are viewing, too.

This is the sort of thing that supports my RSS Readering style -- wandering around and finding new things to read.

[pointer from Steve Rubel]

[Update: Kevin Lim argrees about the plugin's potential: "Overall, I’d rate this Firefox extension as having a disruptive potential as an awareness application for businesses." Note that I discovered his post because of the plugin!]