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The traditional blog comment is dead (almost)
July 14th, 2009
I was reading this article on Read Write Web about the fact that the traditional comment system is about to change. In fact, the post is about the new product by the people behind the popular comment system JS-Kit, currently installed on more than 600,000 websites. The new comment system, called Echo, actually aggregates conversations from twitter, friendfeed and a bunch of other social platforms to give a better idea of what’s being said about your content outside of your website. Because let’s face it, more and more people talk about your content outside of your website.
I’ve been thinking about this for a while honestly. The amount of comments I leave on other blogs have considerably dropped in the last couple of months, but it is not because of my lack of interest. In a certain way, I still comment: it’s just not formal and traditional comments. I retweet posts, I comment on them on twitter, friendfeed and Facebook and sometimes on blogs directly. I still show my interest and give feedback, but just not in a traditional way.
In fact, I think the 2 lines comment is dead. You know, the classic “nice post, you rock!” comment. While it is extremely annoying on a blog, it is perfectly suited for twitter. On the opposite, the smart 10 lines comment won’t and will probably never die.
I think we’re about to see some important changes in the blogging world, but all for the best. Things have already changed a lot with all the different channels available to produce content, but in my opinion this is only the beginning.
How do you see this evolving?
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Interesting post Ben. This does sound like something that will really change blog commenting. I have seen something like this on another blog in which twitter comments were mixed in with regular comments and other trackbacks.
Yes, similar systems are starting to get a little bit more exposure. Mashable for example is aggregating conversations from twitter.
Hey nice post Ben, I was also thinking same thing about this. Somehow this is happening. Thanks for info
Will it also take comments from social bookmarking sites? Beacause comments from digg can sometimes be pretty funny.
That's a good question. I'm not quite sure about digg. We'll see!
Thanks for the info- it turns out Microsoft's bing really is making an impact, it seems to me your blog is getting a lot of search engine traffic from bing- have you found this to be the case?
Nice Post, You Rock!!!
Just kidding, you are so right. 1/2 of the comments on blogs are completely worthless and are not relevant whatsoever.
Comments should be relevant to the topic. Nice post. You rock!..lol..
Thanks for the great post, hopefully the new technology will counter spam even more effectively.
@Brad – you're right. I've lost count of how many 'Good post' or 'Great Article' I've seen on other sites.
I think prefer not to using cause i believe it will slow our page …