I have been experimenting with Tumblr and Disqus, over at Silicon State.

Combining different services to power a blog has been on my mind lately.

This blog runs on Mephisto, a Rails application, and it actually manages a number of web sites in one install.

I love Mephisto!

But. (<- inevitable for a developer)

There are things I want to try without writing code.

For example, automatically pull Flickr, Del.icio.us and Twitter items in as blog posts, not sidebar items.

This experimentation lead me to Tumblr, which is mainly used for tumblelogs.

It lacks searching and comments, but has most everything else I want.

Search can be hacked in using Google’s customer search boxes.

Comments can be integrated through Disqus, using a simple javascript.

This has me thinking.

Is Disqus doomed to be a “feature” or will it thrive as a full blown service?

Should commenting be portable and searchable independent of a blog?

Would that encourage richer conversations?

Just thinking. Always thinking.