DISQUS

David Risley: Scoble is Wrong About Blog Comments Being Dead

  • Mark Dykeman · 1 year ago
    The value of Robert's post, if any, was merely to provoke discussion. I'd say he conducted a little experiment on everyone to see what we'd say.

    Clever guy. Who knows what he really thinks?
  • Robert Scoble · 1 year ago
    The headline sounded more interesting than saying what I actually think, which is that comments are about 2/3rds of the way to dying. :-)
  • Mark Dykeman · 1 year ago
    Easier to say completely dead than 2/3 dead, might remind one of a zombie. ;)
  • David · 1 year ago
    Yeah, the headline worked, Robert. Clearly. :)
  • Chris Bonney · 1 year ago
    David-
    I agree that Robert may be jumping the gun just a smidge. But I did recently have the scenario where there was an entire dialogue happening on FriendFeed about my post where only 3 people commented on the actual blog.

    FriendFeed somehow seems to solicit a conversation more than blogs. Why is that? Is it design or more psychologically appealing to the commenters? Somehow being detached from the blog and more free to comment freely without being part of a the bigger entity?

    Thoughts to ponder.
  • Jeff H · 1 year ago
    Oh, I' feel so manipulated!... David I pretty much agree with your article above. Surely Robert understands the dynamic of people following him whereever he goes that is created by his high profile stature. I'm sure he also realizes the value of the comments that are associated with his blog posts.
  • mike · 1 year ago
    hey david,
    definitely agree with you that comments are not dead. they will always attract the kinds of people who can tolerate the occasional chaos of competing voices...but i think that entrepreneurs are now figuring out more varied ways to get people to engage on a blog. comments on friendfeed are still just that - comments. and they are not the only way that people can interact around content.
  • Paul Stamatiou · 1 year ago
    commenting to show my agreement with the statement that blog comments are not dead..
  • Christina Warren · 1 year ago
    Yeah, what Paul said.
  • Shawn Farner · 1 year ago
    I don't think blog comments are dead, either. Honestly, I think FriendFeed comments could be cool if somehow all the fragments were put back together and tied to the original post, but so far that hasn't happened.
  • gregory · 1 year ago
    comments are becoming the new blog ...

    no more pontification and then replies, merely discussion, like walking into a coffee shop

    first one that can lay that out on a page has a business
  • Jake McKee · 1 year ago
    Yeah, well I claim the color orange to be dead!

    What does that mean? Who knows. Saying blog comments are dead is nothing more than a grab at attention/traffic. It's a short sighted and fairly foolish statement that doesn't seem to mean anything.

    Let's recap - FriendFeed for Scoble yields more conversation on some posts from his blog comments. Yeah. Well, considering the blog post where he claimed blog comments are dead (whatever the hell that means) generated a bunch of comments seems to kill whatever theory he was trying to push.
  • article · 1 year ago
    Comments + their owner’s copyright is an interesting one.

    Personally, I think comments on a site become the site’s property.