Disqus, IntenseDebate, and SezWho. 3 commenting systems that currently don’t work together, but here’s how they could.
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Tags: blog, Blogging, conversation, disqus, friendfeed, intense debate, sezwho, shyftr, Social Media
Just when you thought this topic was dead, I’m here to drudge it back up again. I’ve attempted to analyze my commenting behaviour; I want to explain the situations in which I’m more likely to comment on original blog posts versus on FriendFeed.
Continue reading ‘To Comment or Not to Comment’
Tags: conversation, disqus, friendfeed, intense debate, Social Media
A lot is still being made of the discussions happening in FriendFeed that some feel should belong on the actual post. Recently, the discussion over "fragmented comments" has been revived in posts from Fred Wilson, Matthew Ingram, and Allen Stern. Allen suggests that when FriendFeeders see the content, they should go back to the original post, comment there, and then have their comment pulled back into FriendFeed. I still don’t agree with centralizing comments on the blog post or any one place, and here’s why:
Continue reading ‘The Case For Distributed Conversations’
Tags: blog, Blogging, conversation, disqus, friendfeed, intense debate, Social Media, yacktrack
Marshall McLuhan (a Canadian) coined the phrase "the medium is the message" to describe that the profound impact of television and other media on society was more important than the impact of the content itself. Recently, a lot of discussion has been taking place about FriendFeed’s noise versus its signal. I contend that the impact that FriendFeed has on the Social Web is greater than that of the content it aggregates. Excuse me as I coyly coin the phrase: “FriendFeed is the signal.”
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Tags: advertising, Business, community, conversation, friendfeed, Social Media
Do you think MySpace, Facebook, and Hotmail are about as exciting as the Internet gets? Let me give you a glimpse into how RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary, depending on who you talk to) helps enrich my Internet experience.
Continue reading ‘How RSS Enhances My Internet Experience’
Tags: bookmarking, delicious, google reader, internet, productivity, rss
