While there are public tools like Storify that do an OK job for tweets, and I personally end up using Evernote or for most of my (private) tracking of topics, it’d be useful if there was a good tool for collecting/collating and snapshotting primary sources and making notes/comments on any particular topic (and groups of topics). Useful things would include seen-on and publish dates (a la Zotero etc). And being able to contextualize/parse interesting pieces (Evernote and Clipmarks do a pretty good job with this)

For example, for the controversy of the past few days on the whole PyCon fiasco:

* Summary: How “dongle” jokes got two people fired—and led to DDoS attacks

A series of discussions on Hacker News related to the topic:
* 2013-03-17 Inappropriate comments at pycon 2013 called out
* 2013-03-20 The PyCon Incident
* 2013-03-21 PyCon Code of Conduct changed to avoid public shaming
* 2013-03-21 SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas
* 2013-03-21 Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost
* 2013-03-21 A Difficult Situation