It amazes me that people who profess to be interested in conversation, in thoughts and in communities of ideas still use Disqus to host the comments on their sites. Did no-one learn the lessons of a decade ago, when we did this before?

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It’s funny to watch this Sending XHTML as text/html not-considerd-harmful after all (which is wrong, of course) post get a load of comments almost a year later, but the best bit is saved until the comments, where the author of the article, Brad, responds to a...

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Anyone who wants their visitors to sign up with their blog, just so they can login and comment, doesn’t actually want comments. Just turn them off and stop fooling yourself and your readers.

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Tracking conversations on other weblogs is a perennial problem. Some people swear by Feedster, others by Technorati, maybe you could track incoming links to your own site where new people have clicked through from a comment you left on another site (to give some idea of activity). Some weblogs (notably

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I’ve been using Blogger to power this blog for more than two years now, and whilst the frills have become nicer, the core functionality provided hasn’t changed much in that time (except for comments! yay comments!), which indicates (to me at least) that it’s pretty good. In which case, we need better frills. Herewith some frills that I’d like: Per-post comment feeds. Currently I ge...

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This is just great. “I am a goth and so’s my mums cousin.” Make sure to read all the comments. Hilarious. 🙂 (via the b3ta newsletter)

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Given: Posts Written: 343 and: Comments aren’t enabled for older posts (prior to when you turned on comments), and there (unfortunately) isn’t an automated way to do this. a...

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Comments have now been re-enabled. It’s a third-party system so a bit slow. My apologies, I’m “working on it”.

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I’ve removed comments temporarily. Mainly because they were taking forever to appear. Replacements soon. You can still contact me via Jabber as specified in my FOAF file </raises the bar>

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Weblogs don’t need comments Weblogs are different from threaded discussion groups or mailing lists. They allow you to carry out a distributed discussion where the thread can be assembled remotely using an analysis tool such as Technorati. The advantage is that weblogs are personal, down to the look and feel of an individual blog, with all the functionality o...

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