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article — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:03:13 -0000

Comments + their owner’s copyright is an interesting one.

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

Re: Scoble is Wrong About Blog Comments Being Dead

Jake — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:32:51 -0000

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.

Re: Scoble is Wrong About Blog Comments Being Dead

gregory — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:35:51 -0000

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

Re: Scoble is Wrong About Blog Comments Being Dead

Shawn Farner — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:46:49 -0000

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.

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Christina Warren — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:28:36 -0000

Yeah, what Paul said.

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Paul Stamatiou — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:13:41 -0000

commenting to show my agreement with the statement that blog comments are not dead..

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mike — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:50:52 -0000

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.

Re: Scoble is Wrong About Blog Comments Being Dead

Jeff H — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:31:25 -0000

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.

Re: Scoble is Wrong About Blog Comments Being Dead

Chris Bonney — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:16:07 -0000

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.

Re: Scoble is Wrong About Blog Comments Being Dead

David — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:58:24 -0000

Yeah, the headline worked, Robert. Clearly. :)

Re: Scoble is Wrong About Blog Comments Being Dead

Mark Dykeman — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:35:04 -0000

Easier to say completely dead than 2/3 dead, might remind one of a zombie. ;)

Re: Scoble is Wrong About Blog Comments Being Dead

Robert Scoble — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:18:29 -0000

The headline sounded more interesting than saying what I actually think, which is that comments are about 2/3rds of the way to dying. :-)

Re: Scoble is Wrong About Blog Comments Being Dead

Mark Dykeman — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:00:26 -0000

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?