I try to stay away from blogging about blogging, but Josh Ledgard has a good reply to Scoble's recent talk of turning off comments. Before I get to my point, I should point out that Scoble has been teasing readers about some “secret new technology” that changes the way he blogs (and will so even more once it is not so secret). He says, “But, when you see this thing (probably a couple more months) you'll see that all you need to do to leave a comment on my blog is to have a blog yourself and link to it.”
Scoble has talked a lot about turning off his comments lately, and said that he's enjoyed them being down cause he's gotten a lot more done. And that's cool, I'm sure we all like having more time. However, it just strikes me odd since Scoble is all about having discussions. Even though I've come down on Scoble a time or two, I do really like him and I think he's done a lot to pioneer conversation on the web (especially when it comes to interation with Microsoft). That said, I think turning off comments is a bad idea. And this new technology that he's talking about (maybe some kind of linking technology?) sounds like it will silence a lot of people out there who don't have blogs (assuming the blogger turns off traditional comments). Anyway, go check out Josh's post that articulates this much better than I'm doing.
Posted
Jun 30 2005, 04:08 PM
by
todd