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Re: Comments Can Be Blog Posts

Bio Genetics — Sun, 03 May 2009 01:55:26 -0000

As for long comments from other people on my blog, sometimes I bring them out of the comments and into a post with a bit of commentary from me..

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Brett — Sun, 03 May 2009 01:53:16 -0000

Thats a very interesting thinking.. Bookmarking your website :)

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website design Dubai — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:18:03 -0000

Commenting has truly been the fuel that has fired readership for my blog and opportunity for me. It is also part of being a responsible blogger in general.

If one is an expert, I guess they may just want to keep their "wisdom" on their own blog, but the true conversation participants are those who contribute to the discussion wherever the blog posting is.

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John Peter — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:28:21 -0000

Awesome thoughts. I'd also like to aggregate comments into one or more blog posts. Not only does it make great content more visible, one can also build your own blog content through your efforts of commenting on other people's blogs.

I gave some thought to building a WordPress comment aggregator plugin. Don't think it's going to happen. It would make much more sense if a service like Disqus could make that functionality available.
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kathy — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:03:08 -0000

I am a huge fan of the Huffington Posts option to allow you to blog your own comment right into blogger...genius!

See my post about it here:

http://socialnetworknow.blo...

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Rula — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:03:37 -0000

I trying to come up with the right Greek word or phrase concerning post-post modernism. I think the age has not evolved into a cohesive form. It is part Babel, part global consumerism, we have producers, suppliers, manufacturers and an abyss of consumers, and few people saving for that rainy day brought to you by Burberry. People are being suckled at the teats of consuming, with the faint backlash of cookie cutter concern for the ecology. I think that the lusting after the new will collide with demand based on depletion of raw materials in order to escalate perceived value until it becomes real. When this happens, we will war or whore. ..people do not care what their government does as long as they can buy and be satisfied, if only temporarily. .what is the
greek term for this?

Re: Comments Can Be Blog Posts

Devin — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:24:41 -0000

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 back to traditional blogs is a great way to bring attention to great content. It needs to happen more often.

That's why we've been trying to make it even easier.

Announcing Reblogging on DISQUS

Now on comments throughout DISQUS, you can find a reblog link where you can publish a quotation of the comment to your blog. This quote is cited with the original author, the blog where it originally appeared, and a link back to the original comment to give the discussion full context.

At the moment, we're supporting publishing to Wordpress, Movable Type, TypePad, and Tumblr with more platforms to come.

So next time you see a comment that everyone really needs to read, give it a whirl. We're excited to see more good content bubble to the surface.

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Denar — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:29:45 -0000

Good thinking :)
acutally, there's a grain of truth in it. Keep up the good work.

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Mike Templeton — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:49:37 -0000

With things like FriendFeed, Disqus and OpenID continuing to gain in popularity, I think we are getting closer to that state. The thing that I love about Disqus is that I can track all of my comments across the web, including any replies I receive, without having to get an email from every blog.

Also, I like the OP's idea about being able to reblog a comment, much like how you can use Twit This to Twitter a link or TwitPic to Twitter a photo. All we need are for Wordpress, TypePad, Blogger and the rest of them to create toolbars or bookmarklets that fire up your blogging platform and include a link to the comment for you in the beginning of the post. The way that Disqus syndicates comments and assigns relative permalinks would make it easier for a blogger to link back to an original comment.

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fredwilson — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:39:04 -0000

I use disqus on this blog

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SamJacobs — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:40:40 -0000

What I want is centralized identity management for all content that I create on the web. Aggregation of every piece of content created including blog posts, comments, Tweets, Facebook status, Gmail status, etc. I suppose Facebook has the most succinct means of getting to this universality and maybe Disqus can address something like it.

It would help a lot of things including an individual's recognition in the new social web/micro-celebrity environment. Any one individual would have much more Google juice if they could aggregate all their various macro- and micro-content creation in one place and then use that as the linchpin for search engines, web recognition, public profile, etc.

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scabadone — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:16:51 -0000

What you're talking about sounds similar to what the folks over at Lefora are trying to do.

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FPGA — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:00:07 -0000

What you are using here "disqus" or similar is the solution !

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macbeach — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:58:26 -0000

I frequently comment on blogs that are more popular than my own (just about all of them) so that I can get my ideas out there. I generally don't copy those comments to my blog unless I think they are truly inciteful or I fear that the comment might get deleted (I've had comments deleted for simply disputing the facts in a product review), not to mention that some systems just don't handle comments very reliably.

It would be nice if some new technology would make this all work better, but right now, as most of the previous comments above demonstrate, there are too many different companies all trying to solve this in a way (each requiring a separate registration of some form) that suits their own marketing plans.

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vruz — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:53:22 -0000

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greenskeptic — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:47:15 -0000

A button to reblog or upload to the commentors blog on disqus would be cool. Should be possible for disqus subscribers...

I like the idea. Not all of my comments are blog-worthy, but hate seeing those that are being lost...

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obscurelyfamous — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:17:04 -0000

This could be useful.

In the meantime, you can create a widget from the RSS of your comments
on your profile.

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Evangelist — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:59:16 -0000

Infact it is on the same premise as the headline fo this post, i started with my blog called featuritis.com
Take a look at my about page, which i wrote up almost 3/4 months back but haven't yet made this page public for reasons of uncompleteness... http://www.featuritis.com/a...

It's just to say, i agree to this and is a way to go...

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baseball — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:46:13 -0000

Hah hah ha so funny I fell over laughing
http://youtube.com/watch?v=IIOlNZCYfco

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RacerRick — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:55:32 -0000

Daniel, can we get a nice javascript widget that displays our comments?

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Tish Grier — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:53:38 -0000

Hi Fred,

When I recently went thru a long spate of writer's block, and could only comment, my friend Amy Gahran suggested I try coComment to keep track of it all those comments and to post them back on my blog. I haven't tried it yet, but it seems to be a viable option to letting all those long comments slip away. For compulsive commenters, this is probably a good thing. Another friend of mine just copies the urls of the blog links he leaves comments on, then at the end of his commenting run, creates a post. This gives his audience a way to go back to the blogs he's been to (that may also happen with coComments--I still have to try it out.), so that system spreads a bit of linklove along with creating a post he can use to go back and see if there are follow-up comments.

As for long comments from other people on my blog, sometimes I bring them out of the comments and into a post with a bit of commentary from me. Usually when someone leaves in the comments a great link to one of their blog posts or an article they may have written, I'll pull that out of the comments and put it on the front page as an update to the post. Or even use it in a follow-up post. This then sends some traffic back to the commenter.

Personally, I'm going to give the coComment thing a try this week. I've broke the block for the moment, but it's a nasty elusive critter, and who knows when it will come back and squash my blogging!

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shareme — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:33:25 -0000

Fred,(always did like that as a first name:)) it sounds like you have a VC/Angel funding/Seed capital idea. if services Disqus, Seesmic, and etc are Web 2.0 enabled via api it could be done as a CMs/blog mashup platform.. Use say something like Ruby on Rails combined with datastore APIs instead of database servers and you could have it up and running in 4 months.

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Jeremy Wright — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:58:14 -0000

Fred, we're actually working on this (ability to abstract comments, including referential elements / conversations) here at b5, and working with the teams at SixApart and Automattic to extend this functionality. It's a fairly core issue, though, and one that we see as being beyong just the individual blog.

Glad to hear we're not the only people thinking this way!

Would be happy to walk you through our thoughts if you'd like :)

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willcole — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:09:14 -0000

This is a great point. I also think that all messages are equal. We built a messaging widget on CHALQ that gave the same tools (rich text editing, image video etc...) to all messages. It doesn't matter if you are making a blog post, sending a personal message, writing on a wall, or making post to a group message board. Finally what the widget did was allow you to 'broadcast' your message to any venue you wanted. So your in depth comment could be submitted to the blog you're commenting on and also be made into a blog post at the same time. This doesn't quite fix your issue of allowing the blog owner to promote comments to the main page but could be a good start.