Archive for the 'Comments' Category

Is there any value in blogging when you get no comments?

November 1st, 2008

Christina’s LIS Rant - “[F]rom the earliest days of blogs there have been pronouncements that you need to post so many times per time period (once a day? three times a week? no less than 4 times per month?) and do all other sorts of things to build and grow readership. Some people do all [...]

More on Blog Comments

October 25th, 2007

To cut down on spam comments, I have decided to close comments after a post has been active for 90 days. It’s a very rare occasion that I get a comment on a story after 3 months.
The folks in the IT department at ITI installed a WordPress plug-in called Comment Timeout, which seems to [...]

UK Site Must Reveal Anonymous Commenters Identity

October 23rd, 2007

Clare Dyer - “Disgruntled fans of Sheffield Wednesday who vented their dissatisfaction with the football club’s bigwigs in anonymous internet postings may face expensive libel claims after the chairman, chief executive and five directors won a high-court ruling last week forcing the owner of a website to reveal their identity.”
Scary stuff.

More on Blog Comments

October 17th, 2007

Ann Althouse - “I love starting something.”
Ann takes the best pictures of Manhattan. For that fact alone, it’s worth it to read her blog. This post is another.
After much internal discussion (between me, myself, and I), I have decided to leave comments open for the time being. I don’t get THAT many, [...]

And I Thought Comments Were Dead

August 16th, 2007

Read/Write/Web - “Fav.or.it is a full-featured browser-based RSS Reader, similar to Google Reader. But the main highlight of the service will be integrated commenting, or “full cycle feed reading” as the company refers to it.”
Whoa…
On second thought, comments are still dead.

Commenting R.I.P.

July 9th, 2007

Chris Pirillo: “Blog comments are… just about dead.” - I tend to agree with Chris. Then again, I always agree with Chris.