Comments on: Blogs — it’s all about the conversation http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/02/03/blogs-its-all-about-the-conversation/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:24:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: February 5th, 2006 - Jay Currie http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/02/03/blogs-its-all-about-the-conversation/#comment-83305 February 5th, 2006 - Jay Currie Thu, 09 Nov 2006 07:36:41 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/index.php/2006/02/03/blogs-its-all-about-the-conversation/#comment-83305 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] Blogging’s Secret Sauce This may or may not be part of the “secret sauce” in Gabe’s memeorandum.com, but I think Stowe Boyd is onto something. In a post about what makes blogs work — i.e., what makes them vibrant and helps them grow, as opposed to stagnating or becoming echo chambers — he says that he thinks it has something to do with the ratio of posts to comments and trackbacks.mathew ingram [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] Blogging’s Secret Sauce This may or may not be part of the “secret sauce” in Gabe’s memeorandum.com, but I think Stowe Boyd is onto something. In a post about what makes blogs work — i.e., what makes them vibrant and helps them grow, as opposed to stagnating or becoming echo chambers — he says that he thinks it has something to do with the ratio of posts to comments and trackbacks.mathew ingram [...]

]]> By: One By One Media » I’m trying coComment … let’s see how it goes. http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/02/03/blogs-its-all-about-the-conversation/#comment-353 One By One Media » I’m trying coComment … let’s see how it goes. Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:43:11 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/index.php/2006/02/03/blogs-its-all-about-the-conversation/#comment-353 [...] I’ll also throw my two cents in on this whole topic.  While blogs are all about the conversation, I know personally I haven’t left as many comments on blog posts for the very simple reason that it’s been way, way too hard to keep track of them.  Not all platforms offer comment feeds, and who really wants to have to keep adding and culling those feeds.  E-mails … well good sometimes, bad other times. [...] [...] I’ll also throw my two cents in on this whole topic.  While blogs are all about the conversation, I know personally I haven’t left as many comments on blog posts for the very simple reason that it’s been way, way too hard to keep track of them.  Not all platforms offer comment feeds, and who really wants to have to keep adding and culling those feeds.  E-mails … well good sometimes, bad other times. [...]

]]> By: What’s wrong with blog commenting (and what you can do about it) http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/02/03/blogs-its-all-about-the-conversation/#comment-309 What’s wrong with blog commenting (and what you can do about it) Mon, 06 Feb 2006 02:29:40 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/index.php/2006/02/03/blogs-its-all-about-the-conversation/#comment-309 [...] As a sidenote: trackbacking is a bit of an ideological issue, so not everybody might agree with the “trackbacking is not commenting” statement :-).  There is this idea of the blogosphere of a world-wide decentralised, author-centered “forum” (author-centered versus topic-centered) where links to other blog posts replace comments and the old problem of flaming has been solved because everybode stays on his or her own domain (read this insightful essay if you want to elaborate on the idea). The problem is that so far there are very few tools who collect individual blog postings and their links to visualize them into something that looks like a conversation.  These  memeorandum and pubsub examples are efforts in this direction, and here they illustrate the enthousiastic reactions on a new meme.  Strangely enough, it seems to me that part of the memeorandum-crowd has actually adapted to a highly conversational and link-rich style in order to get into memorandum… where the additional information value seldom exceeds that of a one-line comment ;-) [...] [...] As a sidenote: trackbacking is a bit of an ideological issue, so not everybody might agree with the “trackbacking is not commenting” statement :-).  There is this idea of the blogosphere of a world-wide decentralised, author-centered “forum” (author-centered versus topic-centered) where links to other blog posts replace comments and the old problem of flaming has been solved because everybode stays on his or her own domain (read this insightful essay if you want to elaborate on the idea). The problem is that so far there are very few tools who collect individual blog postings and their links to visualize them into something that looks like a conversation.  These  memeorandum and pubsub examples are efforts in this direction, and here they illustrate the enthousiastic reactions on a new meme.  Strangely enough, it seems to me that part of the memeorandum-crowd has actually adapted to a highly conversational and link-rich style in order to get into memorandum… where the additional information value seldom exceeds that of a one-line comment ;-) [...]

]]> By: Mathew http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/02/03/blogs-its-all-about-the-conversation/#comment-303 Mathew Sun, 05 Feb 2006 14:04:16 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/index.php/2006/02/03/blogs-its-all-about-the-conversation/#comment-303 Thanks, Stowe -- I saw that. I think that makes sense. Mathew Thanks, Stowe — I saw that. I think that makes sense.

Mathew

]]> By: Peter’s Webmaster Blog » coComment - Schweizer Lösung der Kommentar-Problematik in der Blogosphäre? http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/02/03/blogs-its-all-about-the-conversation/#comment-302 Peter’s Webmaster Blog » coComment - Schweizer Lösung der Kommentar-Problematik in der Blogosphäre? Sun, 05 Feb 2006 13:59:31 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/index.php/2006/02/03/blogs-its-all-about-the-conversation/#comment-302 [...] Eine Innovation aus der Schweiz findet momentan enorme Beachtung in der internationalen Blogosphäre: coComment ist ein von Swisscom Innovations finanziertes Berner Startup-Unternehmen. Jeder, der in Blogs Kommentare hinterlässt und die entstehende Diskussion mitverfolgen möchte, kennt das Problem: Es gibt keine einfache Möglichkeit, die neuen Kommentare der anderen User zu den eigenen Kommentaren zu tracken und weiterzudiskutieren. Man muss selbst aktiv werden, die Seite des Beitrags bookmarken oder taggen und später wieder besuchen, oder den Kommentar-Feed abonnieren. Dadurch werden generell die Konversationen in der heutigen Blogosphäre behindert, wie kürzlich auch Bruno Giussani und Mathew Ingram festgestellt haben. [...] [...] Eine Innovation aus der Schweiz findet momentan enorme Beachtung in der internationalen Blogosphäre: coComment ist ein von Swisscom Innovations finanziertes Berner Startup-Unternehmen. Jeder, der in Blogs Kommentare hinterlässt und die entstehende Diskussion mitverfolgen möchte, kennt das Problem: Es gibt keine einfache Möglichkeit, die neuen Kommentare der anderen User zu den eigenen Kommentaren zu tracken und weiterzudiskutieren. Man muss selbst aktiv werden, die Seite des Beitrags bookmarken oder taggen und später wieder besuchen, oder den Kommentar-Feed abonnieren. Dadurch werden generell die Konversationen in der heutigen Blogosphäre behindert, wie kürzlich auch Bruno Giussani und Mathew Ingram festgestellt haben. [...]

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