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I disagree with two points: 1. Comments are still necessary. Tweeting a link and a short comment doesn't cut it; not everyone has a blog (or wants to make a pu

by porker 13y ago

I disagree with two points: 1. Comments are still necessary. Tweeting a link and a short comment doesn't cut it; not everyone has a blog (or wants to make a public post to a different audience about another blogger's post) just to respond - to assume people will blog about you is sheer arrogance. Maybe Matt doesn't care what others think, or want a discussion and discourse, but I certainly do. 2. Opening links in new windows or tabs is OK if your blog has a very non-technical audience. Most people don't know the keyboard shortcuts for opening in a new tab, and even though they can right click... don't. It's always fun to see people's enthusiasm when I show them the shortcuts, and to watch them start opening links in multiple tabs!

qznc 13y ago
I had Disqus comments on my blog for a while. However, I noticed that the good discussions took place on Hacker News and Reddit.
- mindcrime 13y ago
  Yes, which suggests that what the Web needs is proper support for aggregating / merging comments on a story when those comments are spread across multiple domains. Ideally, you should be able to go to http://www.example.org/blog/a_post_about_something.html http://www.example.org/blog/a_post_about_something.html and see in the "comments" section the comments from HN, reddit, G+, and elsewhere. From what I remember when I started looking into something like this a few years ago, from a technical perspective, SIOC[1] and FOAF[2] give us some of the building blocks to do something like that. But it'll probably never catch on just due to the economics... At least if you blog on Blogger, they have integrated G+ discussions now, which turns out to be kinda nifty. [1]: http://sioc-project.org/ http://sioc-project.org/ [2]: http://www.foaf-project.org/ http://www.foaf-project.org/
  - qznc 13y ago
    Microformats are a more pragmatic approach. http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-in-reply-to http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-in-reply-to
adrianhoward 13y ago
Opening links in new windows or tabs is OK if your blog has a very non-technical audience Have you tested that, or is it an assumption... because every time I have tested this I have found the opposite ;-) (i.e. that opening stuff in new tabs automatically will confuse more than it helps, and folk have trouble returning to the original post often leaving it unread - especially for non-technical folk).

by porker 13y ago

qznc 13y ago

I had Disqus comments on my blog for a while. However, I noticed that the good discussions took place on Hacker News and Reddit.

mindcrime 13y ago
Yes, which suggests that what the Web needs is proper support for aggregating / merging comments on a story when those comments are spread across multiple domains. Ideally, you should be able to go to http://www.example.org/blog/a_post_about_something.html http://www.example.org/blog/a_post_about_something.html and see in the "comments" section the comments from HN, reddit, G+, and elsewhere. From what I remember when I started looking into something like this a few years ago, from a technical perspective, SIOC[1] and FOAF[2] give us some of the building blocks to do something like that. But it'll probably never catch on just due to the economics... At least if you blog on Blogger, they have integrated G+ discussions now, which turns out to be kinda nifty. [1]: http://sioc-project.org/ http://sioc-project.org/ [2]: http://www.foaf-project.org/ http://www.foaf-project.org/
- qznc 13y ago
  Microformats are a more pragmatic approach. http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-in-reply-to http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-in-reply-to

adrianhoward 13y ago

Opening links in new windows or tabs is OK if your blog has a very non-technical audience Have you tested that, or is it an assumption... because every time I have tested this I have found the opposite ;-) (i.e. that opening stuff in new tabs automatically will confuse more than it helps, and folk have trouble returning to the original post often leaving it unread - especially for non-technical folk).