NPR doesn’t want you to talk on their island
NPR’s decision to disable comments from their site is quite disappointing. On face value, it’s understandable why NPR shut off comments. Most of them are simply …
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A blog without comments is broken
Every time a blog doesn’t have the ability for a reader to leave comments, I think that blog is broken. Sure, there is social media. …
How to improve marginalia in Instapaper
Do you enjoy writing notes in the margins of books and articles? The quest for an online marginalia system continues with Instapaper. Instapaper offers the …
Get more mileage out of comments you give
Do you ever feel like not leaving a comment on a blog, because you feel like it won’t be seen by anyone else other than …
Syncing blog post comments with instant messages
Imagine if blog comments could connect with IMs. Or IMs to connect with blog comments. What do I mean? It seems like a bit amount …
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Why do people not comment on blogs? The psychology and historical reasons
Perplexing is that people can read something and not have anything to say. What are the historical and psychology causes? At the dawn of democracy, …
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What’s happened to blogging in the past 12 years?
Blogs used to be the central place for people to share points of view. Status updates have moved to facebook. Link sharing has moved to …
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Transforming content that is vaporous into something permanent, substantial
Newspaper sites have a problem. They have an immense amount of visitors coming to their site from from google. Sounds like a a good thing? …
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Why comments should be enabled on all blogs
If you have comments disabled on your blog, chances are I won’t spend my time reading it. If I spend the time reading your blog, …
A blog post should never have one comment
If someone comments on your blog post, you should always try to respond. If you don’t, it shows readers that you don’t care about the …