Obvious statement: there’s a lot of information and conversations floating around the internets. Not-so-easy questions to answer: what do we do with it, how do we harness it, and how do we make sense of it?

An area of social media that I think about a lot these days is the prospect of pulling data – usually in the form of RSS feeds – into social media platforms with the idea of… doing something interesting with it. It’s a fascinating means to try to make sense of the bustling, chaotic, and never-ending conversations that are taking place today.

Enter Dwigger, a site that gives us “threaded conversations and voting for Twitter. As Paul Glazowski at Mashable writes: “Twitter feeds plus threaded replies plus voting. It’s Twitter, Diggnified.”

Now, you can look at Dwigger in a few ways. You can say: big deal, it’s Twitter with threaded comments and voting. If FriendFeed added voting, there’d be almost no need for this site.

I don’t see it that way at all. While the site has just launched, already you can filter conversations by a dozen or so geographic regions, su