{"id":3690,"date":"2005-04-29T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-29T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/a-comment-about-comments\/"},"modified":"2005-04-29T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-29T17:00:00","slug":"a-comment-about-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/a-comment-about-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"A comment about comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, I’ve been talking about blogs to non-bloggers to get them interested in blogging. One of the points I make to these folks is that the value of blogs lies in building unofficial networks of people, not creating individual posts. Blogs are essentially conversations. Often, especially at first, they’re one-sided conversations. However, if you’ve got something to say, people will comment and then all is good…maybe.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t until today that I realized how unsatisfied I was with comments. I made a comment on Lloyd Davis<\/a>‘s blog, and I didn’t know he’d responded until I went back to check. That doesn’t induce conversation! I need to know what someone says in response to my (ahem) insightful and pithy remarks.<\/p>\n

Maybe this is handled by blog products and I’m unaware as to how, but it seems to me that whenever one of my comments receives a response, I need to be told so I can go back and respond again. Back and forth. That’s what makes a conversation work. I need to get this worked out so I can feel better about talking to non-bloggers. Unless it’s super easy and blazingly obvious, they’re not going to grok the whole conversation between blogs angle.<\/p>\n

Of course, if you’re living a better form of blog-comment conversation let me know. And don’t say trackbacks, please. Trackbacks exclude a whole slew of people. And don’t say technorati. That only works if you’re unique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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