Tag: comments

Is it still a blog if the comments are off?

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Amber Bouman on Engadget’s one week trial of turning all comments off: But we’ve increasingly found ourselves turning off comments on stories that discuss topics of harassment, gender or race simply because so many of the replies are hateful, even threatening. Articles that mention Apple deteriorate into arguments of iOS vs Android, replete with grade-school name calling. Articles that don’t make mention of Samsung often include comments claiming that we are shills for Apple. Some commenters plain attack our writers or editors or other commenters. Some are outright threats. And that’s not even getting into the spam problem. The thing

Does commenting in other places break the web?

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Janne Jalkanen: …If you have a great idea that improves something I’ve written, there is no link between that comment and the idea unless you happen to be one of those few people who are my friends on Facebook and happen to glance at the stream in the brief time it’s visible. And that bugs me – you wonderful idea should be here, next to mine. On Facebook, it’s not indexable. It’s ephemeral. It’s empty. Your comments are more valuable than that. You’re breaking the web. Stop it. Please.

Quote of the Day on my Sanity

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Nokia’s X6 smartphone is starting to get some traction in the marketplace, with Ricky over at Symbian-Guru pointing out it’s arrival with them and an upcoming review. In the meantime he’s highlighted some other X6 content on the internet, including my unboxing video from Christmas. But it was Adam’s comment to the article that made me laugh: I maintain that Ewan Spence is the most insanely entertaining man in the world of Symbian. Because he is insane! Sorry Ricky and Rita, I love you both, but there’s nothing funnier than a sock puppet throwing a brand new $600 phone away

Today is Going to be ‘Leave a Comment Day’

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One of things I decided to do a lot at this year’s SXSW conference was to introduce people. It’s been joked by some that I know everyone at these conferences. I don’t, but when I get stopped in the halls of the Austin Convention Centre every ten yards it’s kind of hard to not generate that impression. So I decided to be a facilitator this year at SXSW Interactive, and had a great time. To keep that spirit going, I’m going to make sure that throughout April I leave at least one comment on someone’s blog every day. If we’re

Where The Comments Are.. FriendFeed, Doctor Who and Routing Round Obstructions

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I got a comment today on one of the more popular articles on this site, namely the “Tardis Crash” mash-up of the 1963, 2005 and 2007 Doctor Who theme tunes. Except it wasn’t on the site. It was on a link to a Twitter post that was over on FriendFeed. There’s already been discussion (and there will continue to be discussion) about the rights and wrongs of services which lift the content of other sites but keep as much lock-in value as possible. I’d consider FriendFeed keeping the comments on a post on their site, and not relaying it into