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  pixelbud

  1 year ago

  Well said. And at the end of the day there is only so much we can keep up with -- no matter what service it happens to be.
  
  I will say... Disqus has increased my participation in blog commenting. Just always being "logged in" to comment without having to go through email verification 3x is great.
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  Corvida

  1 year ago

  Staying logged into Disqus is definitely a time saver. Sometimes I go to other sites and I look at the comments box and think "Why am I not logged into Disqus?". Really they weren't using Disqus, but I'm so used to not having to type such things in now just to leave a comment. Disqus has spoiled me.
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  John

  1 year ago

  As a reader, I think it's more of a compliment to the blogger when I leave my comment on their blog rather than Strands or something similar. But from the readers perspecitve, oftentimes it comes down to what is easiest for me. Ideally, a comment could be made once and pushed to the various places (to be determined by the commenter). Well said Corvida!
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  Shey

  1 year ago

  It's an interesting theory and it is reasonable. But over the long run I think it has more to do with the individual reader's tendencies than the blogger's behaviour.
  
  I've tried to describe my commenting tendencies here: http://www.sheysmith.com/2008/06/13/to-comment-...
  
  Of course, this only matters if you care where the comments are made, which I don't. :)
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  jonknight

  1 year ago

  great ideas, i agree. personally i don't really care where the comments appear, to a degree. that being said, i love comments on the blog site above all.
  i'll comment on anything i think is 'commentable' unless they blog owner makes it difficult. requiring signing in to comment is where i draw the line. last night for instance, i really wanted to comment on a conversation taking place at a political blog but they required my name, address(?) and even a phone number!
  needless to say, i just clicked on through to the next blog...
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  Corvida

  1 year ago

  I don't blame you. Any blog that requires me to basically register before commenting isn't likely to receive my comment and I usually move on too.
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  jonknight

  1 year ago

  as an aside, i just realized that this is the first time i clicked through a twitter to read your blog corvida... so twitter works!
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  juliadesigns

  12 months ago

  I rarely if ever, receive blog comments. I used to think that folk werent reading my blog (perhaps they are'nt!) but my Twitter followers are increasing steadily as are my contacts on mybloglog even if my subscribers are few, so someone must read/like me somewhere..lol
  It must also be said that having posted several related and rather lengthy blog posts concerning my dissertation, I am now taking a bit of a break before starting a newish topic (elearning and social media in education) which is the career direction I am hoping to follow in the autumn, so hopefully that subject will attract some new interest.
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  Corvida

  12 months ago

  The long format could be a turn off to some when we're being reprogrammed to skim everything these days. Do you think posting shorter posts would help?
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  justinleon

  12 months ago

  I don't think they are "dead". Still many people have not heard of friendfeed. I still don't get enough comments even though I switched to disqus. Maybe I should finally switch to wordpress instead of blogger.
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  juliadesigns

  12 months ago

  Re shorter posts- you could well be right.....but it sort of breaks the flow of the story somehow, when I wanted to tell a story in several chapters. Maybe there should have been more chapters, perhaps?
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  oldskoolmark

  12 months ago

  Being fairly new to the social media scene, I have the privilege of playing around and my readers are coming from all over. But i find more conversations going on in Friendfeed than on my blog. I posted "Can friendfeed kill off a blog" to and I'm glad i found ur post an answer to my qn.
  
  http://oldskoolmark.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/ca...
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  afallison

  3 weeks ago

  I'm just now really getting my feet wet with disqus. I am really loving the way it integrates with twitter and the other web 2.0 social platforms. ;)
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