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.

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