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By: LPT » Blog Archive » The Life and Death of Blog Comments

LPT » Blog Archive » The Life and Death of Blog Comments — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:45:38 +0000

[…] much of my time to even think about them, never mind curate them.” Hugh MacLeod said in a random notes on blogging post on his Gapingvoid blog that “If a blog doesn’t allow comments, then yes, it’s still a […]

By: charlie

charlie — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:59:58 +0000

Thanks for the insights from your experience

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:57:43 +0000

Insisting on comments has always struck me as weird. The web was interactive before comments. If somebody really wants to join the conversation, she can start her own blog.

By: Jim Turner

Jim Turner — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:45:01 +0000

The answer to the meaning of life is 42.

By: alan patrick

alan patrick — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 05:26:59 +0000

Wash it out with Pinotage instead

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:50:25 +0000

“I think having a blog *without* comments is like wanking — you have no partner in your social intercourse.“
Ooh… I have to go wash my mouth out with soap just for READING that sentence

By: alan patrick

alan patrick — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:37:19 +0000

Good points all, except for the one on comments (No. 39). You noted:
“39. If a blog doesn’t allow comments, then yes, it’s still a blog. People who say otherwise are just getting in touch with their “Inner Idealistic Wanker”.
Nope, I think its getting in touch with your readers
To me the point of blogging is interactivity rather than mo’ megaphone media. Not quite certain what the effective difference between an old fashioned website and a blog with no comments is.?
I think having a blog *without* comments is like wanking — you have no partner in your social intercourse.

By: Lacey

Lacey — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:19:36 +0000

I am not a geek , nor is my blog filled with desperate musings of my angst-filled life. In fact, my blog is but giggles and nonsense, with nothing more than perhaps twice yearly “personal” content from me.
Today,for example, I posted valuable information on how to become your own grandfather, happily sponsored by the Redneck Trailer Park Inbreeders Assoc. I think society needs to know this.
Does this mean I need to stop referring to myself as a blogger and perhaps call myself a noggin-bloggin wannabe?
Does a blog on Yahoo actually COUNT as a blog? Or am I simply deluding myself?
One point of interest tho… it doesn’t count as “getting laid” if you are sitting at your computer screen typing with one hand.
And yes, the reason I am at Yahoo, is that it is so appropriatly titled. ;o)

By: K

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:58:37 +0000

Enjoyed the rest of the list but the “there are no female bloggers out there” myth is getting old. And no, we aren’t all mommy bloggers.

By: Jeffrey Keefer

Jeffrey Keefer — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:52:11 +0000

I am looking forward to attending my first blog conference in February, Northern Voice. Which conferences (#27) can you recommend?

By: AHCB

AHCB — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:50:49 +0000

I write a small niche blog about life in New York’s famed Hotel Chelsea. I totally agree that the indirect benefits are worth far more than the ad revenues.

By: Deanna

Deanna — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:12:23 +0000

Regarding #38 — it may be the very fact that Robert has met & gotten to know so very many people; THAT is why he allows the comments. As he recently commented, even those who are his so called haters can actually be charming and like him in person.

By: dizzy

dizzy — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:13:06 +0000

* you are not as witty as you’d like to be.
* it is VERY unlikely you will ever make money from blogging.
* polish your writing!
* polish your writing again!
* polish your writing again again!
* tell me something NEW.

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:21:36 +0000

I think Point #42 is that, no matter how far you think you’ve gotten from your nerdy roots, #42 will always hold significance, even if only meaningless significance.

By: UAE Students

UAE Students — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:37:33 +0000

I’m a Middle East Blogger. I leave comments with the faint hope that someone new will discover my blog.
That doesn’t make a shallow blogger, does it?