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However, people are going to go their own ways and talk to their friends about what they saw and learned during the lecture. They might write about it in the local paper. More discussions happen, and sometimes, the lecturer is invited back in to the conversation somewhere else, or *because* of the external buzz. I would see this more as commenting for an audience.
I love the way comments are spawning discussions and can go either way toward the author or the audience.
I had only commented once or twice and only when I thought I really had something to contribute to the conversation... Now I see that might be a flawed way of thinking. I need to comment when I have things to contribute, but I also need to be clear as to who the audience I am speaking to might be. Most of the time I find myself writing to the blogger and not the intended audience. Sometimes the person has sad something SO infuriating that I MUST respond. I guess in those times I am speaking to both the author and the followers.
Commenting on another site is more like talking with the other students after the class in the corridor. Nothing wrong with that of course, but the interaction with the teacher is lost. You don't have to do that because you feel sorry for the students who were not in the classroom during the lecture: they could have taken that class themselves if they wanted to.
And what is so good about the web: They can still take that class. All that takes is for them to follow a link to the original blog posting.
My conclusion is: The preferred location for comments is on the blog they reply to.