When The Reaction to Your Blog Post Goes Wrong | The Blog Herald (5)
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A blogger just contacted me quite upset about the reaction to a blog post they’d written. They wanted my advice on what they should do. “Should you do anything?” “Well, I thought I should respond, but I don’t know what to do!” “Did you want a response to your blog post?” “Sure, but not this response.” “You wanted a response. You got one. What about that response aren’t you happy with?” When we put our ...
10 Practical Ways to Boost Blog Comments and Conversation (2)
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One of the reasons I was keen to move to WordPress is that it offers so many more practical ways to encourage blog comments, support lively conversations and build a community around your blog. I’ve jotted down some of the things I’ve added to Confident Writing - partly to let you know what you’ll find when you pop over and comment but also in the interests of sharing and learning from what you do. Some ...
BackType -find, follow and share blog comments [del.icio.us] (1)
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BackType is a website that lets people find, follow and share comments from across the web. BackType’s technology crawls and indexes millions of comments so you can search them by topic or follow those written by the people you care about.
BackType – a New Model of Handling Blog Comments (4)
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We have already seen enough competition (I think) between services intended to help blog readers easier authenticate themselves to leave a comment on a blog and have all the comments from blogs supporting this or that service aggregated into one account: Disqus, SezWho, JS-Kit, IntenseDebate all work in the same field with slight variations of approaches. But unfortunately as blog owners choose different services to install on their blogs, readers end up creating accounts with ...
Comments Are Blog Posts To Billy! (3)
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Testing out the new reblogging feature in Disqus. thats right now you can take any comment that is using disqus and turn it into your very own blog post or part of a blog post. Will be interesting to play around with this feature. What do you think? Comments Can Be Blog Posts We think so too. A lot of great conversation goes on in comments that shouldn’t be stuck behind the fold. Publishing these ...
The Liz Strauss Comment Counter Plugin Stirs Comment Controversy (9)
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The Liz Strauss Comment Counter by Ozh WordPress Plugin has been released by PlanetOzh and it is stirring up comment controversy everywhere. Recently, John C. Dvorak of PCMag asked what’s the value of online comments, bringing up an issue that confronts many bloggers as they mature in the blogging world. At first, comments were greeted with fear. Fear of how to control them, whether they were worth the risk of opening yourself up to feedack. ...
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Webomatica said:
comment counter? One more widget / stat I'm not installing
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Mark Dykeman said:
My fellow bloggers/FriendFeeders, here's yet another permutation of the subject of blog comments and online comments in general. Also note the link in this post to a related Dvorak column.
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Mrs S said:
Excellent post about the value of comments on a blog - personally I enjoy to hear what my readers think and encourage them to comment. I use this chicklet to show that people *do* comment on my blog :)
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Maria Reyes-McDavis said:
Great plugin, no matter how you look at it.
Disqus Wants to Own the Commentsphere; It Just Might (9)
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Disqus is getting a whole lot more attractive to publishers today with the rollout of several new features designed to make the third-party commenting system function much more like one native to popular blogging platforms. While Disqus has attracted more than 30,000 websites to its system, its biggest drawback to-date has been the fact that its commenting system functioned essentially like a widget, meaning comments were not stored locally. This meant that publishers who installed ...
Disqus Wants to Own the Commentsphere; It Just Might (11)
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Disqus is getting a whole lot more attractive to publishers today with the rollout of several new features designed to make the third-party commenting system function much more like one native to popular blogging platforms. While Disqus has attracted more than 30,000 websites to its system, its biggest drawback to-date has been the fact that its commenting system functioned essentially like a widget, meaning comments were not stored locally. This meant that publishers who installed ...
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Jason said:
DAMMIT! somebody stole my idea AGAIN!
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Gordo said:
Mashable on the New DISQUS
Choose Entrecard for Great Traffic (1)
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After prodding from a friend and business partner, I finally added Entrecard to this blog. It was a good move. My traffic increased significantly, I have new readers, great comments on my posts, and in return I have discovered new (to me) blogs I really enjoy reading. It’s simple enough to join. You have to create a 125×125 button, but they have templates available so that shouldn’t stop anyone. Tip: Read the Entrecard Ebook For ...
Is John McCain Encouraging Comment Spam? (1)
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Encouraging your supporters to get out and support you through social media, including blog comments, seems like fair game, but US presidential candidate Senator John McCain (R-AZ) is taking a step further and perhaps a step too far, according to some observers. McCain’s web site has an area under the header Spread the Word in which the campaign encourages visitors to “spread the word about John McCain on news and blog sites” by leaving comments ...
How To Set Your Blog On Fire (Literally) (5)
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If you comment on this post, Patton Oswalt will hate you - VIDEO (1)
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Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Video, Celebrities, Reality-FreeSo, what's more evil to you, ultimate fighting or bloggers/commenters? That's the question that will be debated tonight at 10:30 pm on the second season opener of Comedy Central's Root of All Evil. Arguing that ultimate fighting is worse is Andy Daly, while Patton Oswalt argues that blogs and the people who comment on them (cough) are the true evil in this world.You know, even though I blog ...
What Should Techmeme Use for Sources? (Poll) (3)
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I have read a post by Fred Wilson on his blog initiating a new discussion about what Techmeme sources should be and why Techmeme should include blog comments into account instead of focusing on blog posts (and articles on mainstream media websites) only. Fred not only encourages Gabe Rivera to include comments in the sources but he actually puts the question as "When Will A Comment Be Treated Like A Post On Techmeme?". So it's ...
Can FriendFeed save us from Conversation Fragmentation? (1)
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Refill the coffee, Thelma. This post is long and impassioned. It might even be worth a read I’ve been impressed enough with Disqus to give it a go. I’m ok with it, but it’s not there yet. I have realised that my frustrations with its failure to import old comment threads from Wordpress are warranted, but I can see the utter nightmare it would be to try and write and import to do that. Meanwhile, ...
Get Twitter comments for your blog with Chirrup (2)
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Filed under: Developer, Utilities, Blogging, Social SoftwareBack before the days of FriendFeed, it was pretty common to see people post things like, "Just wrote a new blog post. What do you think?" to Twitter. That's a good way of getting your link out there, but if anybody actually wanted to answer your question, they'd probably do it in the comments, not in Twitter. Chirrup is a way of tweeting back at someone and commenting at ...
Blog Comment Policy (1)
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I really didn’t want to do this but I guess it’s time. I love getting comments here but there a few things that really irritate me (maybe I’m just getting grouchy in my old age). Comment spam and and keyword spamming the name field in comments just happen to be two of those things. To add insult to injury, I just learned that people are actually being paid to stuff keywords in the name field ...
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In one sense, a blog is just a Web site. A Web site that, because of easy-to-use and free software like WordPress, anyone can publish. You could decide to use WordPress.com as your content-management system, to produce your own one-way Web site. All you would have to do is turn off the comments feature, either for the whole site or for individual posts. In this way, you would have an easy Web publishing system. But ...Shared by Chuck (7)Contribute commentSix Pixels of Separation - Marketing and Communications Insights Blog and Podcast - By Mitch Joel at Twist Image (110) permalink
The easiest thing to do is to react to something immediately. It's usually a knee-jerk reaction, you scramble your thoughts together and hit the "publish" button. Sometimes you're proud of the result, other times you're embarrassed and - for the most part - the feeling is that you wished you has taken more time to think it through, read how others reacted and spent some more time formulating a more thorough opinion. Then there are ...Contribute comment
