Commenting R.I.P.
July 9th, 2007Chris Pirillo: “Blog comments are… just about dead.” - I tend to agree with Chris. Then again, I always agree with Chris.
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July 9th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
See, now… if I leave this comment, I’m nullifying my argument. Damn you.
July 9th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
I can’t agree. Comments enrich my blog considerably. On some non-library blogs, the comments are far more interesting than the posts.
Or are blog comments like email and lists? Just about dead, maybe, but doing just fine all the same.
July 9th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
I agree with Walt. Even just in the past week, some great discussions have taken place on my blog that have broadened my views of things and hopefully theirs as well. I love those dialogs. Perhaps when everyone has a blog, comments will be dead (since everyone will have their own platform), but there are a lot of people out there for whom commenting is their only “voice” in the Blogosphere. I also know of people who started off as blog commenters and then later on started their own blogs (Ryan Deschamps, The Other Librarian, is a terrific example). I think it’s great that people have a space where they can take part in the conversation without needing to have a blog of their own.
Some posts will get lots of comments others will hardly get any. It just depends on whether or not the post really gets people thinking.
July 10th, 2007 at 2:42 am
The trouble with comments is that the blogger rarely comments on comments and those making comments rarely comment on other comments. So why bother, in many cases? We all need to move along to others postings on that same blog or on to other blogs or, yes, print periodicals. Or getting some sleep. It takes time to say basically, “Good point!” And I think we are a bit afraid of forever being branded tarnished as cranks on the basis of a rash few comments forever preserved in web land.
I read what all three of the above write and profit immensely for everything you all contribute to the profession. But I am so busy reading blogs such as yours that I can’t pause to say. “Yes, but…” Or “Right on!” and so forth.
Chris Pirillo’s video clips are outstanding, by the way. Keep it up, Chris!
July 10th, 2007 at 2:45 am
And from what Steven writes, too!
And I used “for” not “from” above–we have to proofread our comments, too, which also takes time–sigh. And we all have so little. There are so many blogs to get to…
July 13th, 2007 at 8:00 am
See what I mean–no one commented on the above comments. Why comment at all? Life moves on.