Here’s an observation to add to the ongoing blog comments debate.
Steve Spalding of How To Split An Atom write an interesting post called 32 Sci-Fi Novels You Should Read.
This post was bookmarked and shared by a bunch of people. It was a bit off-topic for Steve’s blog, but no big deal.
Here’s a snapshot of the FriendFeed activity for this post (note: these are just Likes and Comments associated with the actual post:
Here’s the link, it may be updated by the time that you read this blog post.
OK.
Now, by contrast, at the same time that I took this snapshot from FriendFeed, I checked the number of comments on Steve’s blog.
There were at least 50 comments on the blog entry itself.
I don’t know that we can say anything more conclusive that there were a whole lot of comments on Steve’s blog post, a lot more than were in FriendFeed.
Well, maybe we can say one more thing.
Blog comments aren’t completely dead yet.
Rumors of this comment's death are highly exaggerated. Blogging is too personal for comments to truly die. For the large networkers like Scoble yes they may disappear but for the great mass of bloggers they won't. Comments are the best way to engage in conversation with the blogger and the bloggers other readers. Freindfeed is great of consolidation of your stuff, but it won't take over your blog entirely.
Sorry, Steve, just saw your comment now. I agree – blog comments aren't going away.
Hi, my name is Tim. Just wanted to say hi to the forum, I been creeping around here for a while now, but tend to participate more. Looking forward to make some new friends. Ciao!
Tim
NY, NY