Buzz is interesting in some ways for this kind of activity, but I’m afraid it starts to get unmanageable when you have so many comments responding at the same time — the interface becomes a constraint to how much you can follow, where Twitter (more like Tweetdeck or TweetChat) accomodates that rapidfire activity well.

Still… Marcia turned me onto what #journchat does for a summary. Someone acts as moderator, favorite-ing what they feel are the big points that emerge and then they simply cull those favorites in an organized way, based on the structure of the chat. That ultimately might be the easiest and straight-forward way of doing it.

Doesn’t make it the best way — doesn’t mean you can’t have a community that’s interested in pouring through the tweets to derive the juice from the fruit, either.