DISQUS

Phil · 1 year ago

Looking at other blogs, there has been a shift in the conversation. Yesterday I posted about comments going through a rebirthing process (Commenting is Dead, Long Live Commenting!).

You're right, there will be tools to loop comments back to the original post, but I still think the the ink is in the pool now and we won't be able to go back and siphon it out.

It may be that we're seeing the beginning of a new way of blogging.

So far FriendFeed seems the most intelligent conversational medium.

I do find some of the commenting on a blog fed into FriendFeed to have a different ambiance than on the original post. Could be the people, but I think it's the user interface. It's quick, tight, and although not truly threaded yet, it's easier to collect evey commenters' ideas.

I'm curious to see how things look in a year. By then we'll know the state of comment fragmentation and how much financial and other impacts it has.

viajes cuba · 4 months ago

Losing out on these comments is a big deal. It has gone so far as reducing some bloggers (like Jeremiah Owyang) overall output. While I agree that some of my comments are going to FriendFeed, most of the comments on FriendFeed are not from people that were already commenting on my blog. As long as the users on FriendFeed have to visit my blog, there’s no substantial problem.