Patrick Thornton has reviewed the Washington Post’s new visual ‘WebCom’ commenting system on Poynter online. It’s not being used site-wide, only on “Flash-based video features such as onBeing and Scene In.” [Steven] King [the site's editor of innovations] said the site will start using WebCom on other videos later this year. There are no plans [...]
Monday, December 8, 2008
A couple of observations on two comment apps that I'm finding useful. 1. I sometimes bounce around commenting on various sites then forget who or where they are, which means I can't check back later to find out how the conversation's progressing. Some blog sites have an option to receive an email whenever a new comment is added to the thread, but most don't. Enter Backtype, which showed up in a Google alert a couple of weeks ago and looks promising.
Monday, April 7, 2008
UK blogger Martin Belam has been running a series on making the most of comments on blogs. It's quite wide-ranging and I'm finding it useful (especially in reinforcing my intention to move on from Blogger at some stage to a platform with more functionality). In this post he talks about how to engage with people commenting on blogs.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Anyone writing a moderation policy for a news website - and there must be a few of you doing just that at the moment - might want to check out BoingBoing moderator Teresa Neilsen Hayden's Q&A on their moderation policy.
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Monday, September 21, 2009
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