Comments on: responding to comments http://dan.hersam.com/2005/06/09/responding-to-comments/ A computer programmer's commentary on news, Linux, programming, music, web design, trivia, humor, usability and whatever else strikes his fancy at the time. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:01:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: dan http://dan.hersam.com/2005/06/09/responding-to-comments/#comment-8253 dan Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:46:42 +0000 /?p=1180#comment-8253 I'm glad you agree Fran. I’m glad you agree Fran.

]]> By: fran http://dan.hersam.com/2005/06/09/responding-to-comments/#comment-8249 fran Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:51:38 +0000 /?p=1180#comment-8249 HEAR HEAR! HEAR HEAR!

]]> By: dan http://dan.hersam.com/2005/06/09/responding-to-comments/#comment-6394 dan Tue, 14 Jun 2005 19:05:19 +0000 /?p=1180#comment-6394 Teja: Thanks. Thejaswi: I agree. There seems to be a big hole in the whole blogging comments area,because if you follow lots of blogs and comment frequently on them, it's hard to know how long you should keep going back to check for comments. Levi: That's a good idea for bloggers, but if someone doesn't have a blog, trackback/pingback isn't an option. There must be a better way to enable conversations to take place easily between bloggers and readers. Teja: Thanks.

Thejaswi: I agree. There seems to be a big hole in the whole blogging comments area,because if you follow lots of blogs and comment frequently on them, it’s hard to know how long you should keep going back to check for comments.

Levi: That’s a good idea for bloggers, but if someone doesn’t have a blog, trackback/pingback isn’t an option. There must be a better way to enable conversations to take place easily between bloggers and readers.

]]> By: Levi http://dan.hersam.com/2005/06/09/responding-to-comments/#comment-6358 Levi Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:25:27 +0000 /?p=1180#comment-6358 I'm currently using a blog engine that would automatically set up a notification for new comments on an entry you comment on. Unfortunately, it required making an account, and people can't be bothered to do that on every blog they want to comment on. This could probably be gotten around without too much trouble, but maintaining individual comment notification lists for every entry starts to sound fishy as a general solution. I think the idea of trackback/pingback is a lot better for two-way blog conversation, since each party makes their response on their own blog and notifications get sent out as normal. Unfortunately, that doesn't always fit very well if you don't want to flesh out every response to another person's entry into a front-page entry of your own. Maybe a sidebar or secondary page of entries that are responses to other people's entries would be a good idea. Call it 'conversations' or something. I’m currently using a blog engine that would automatically set up a notification for new comments on an entry you comment on. Unfortunately, it required making an account, and people can’t be bothered to do that on every blog they want to comment on. This could probably be gotten around without too much trouble, but maintaining individual comment notification lists for every entry starts to sound fishy as a general solution.

I think the idea of trackback/pingback is a lot better for two-way blog conversation, since each party makes their response on their own blog and notifications get sent out as normal. Unfortunately, that doesn’t always fit very well if you don’t want to flesh out every response to another person’s entry into a front-page entry of your own. Maybe a sidebar or secondary page of entries that are responses to other people’s entries would be a good idea. Call it ‘conversations’ or something.

]]> By: Thejaswi http://dan.hersam.com/2005/06/09/responding-to-comments/#comment-6350 Thejaswi Thu, 09 Jun 2005 19:14:40 +0000 /?p=1180#comment-6350 Yes i completely agree with you - Conversations are satisfying only when they are two-sided. It also applies to conversations in the form of comments, which is hard in many blogging engines ( example the one used here ). The problem with most blogs is that, when somebody replies to your comments they dont send notification ( email would be the best ) to the original commentor, so he needs to come back to the original blog to realise that he has some comments waiting for his response. Unless blogs support notification on response to your comments i guess it would be hard to have active two way conversation. I guess that's the power of all these community blogging sites like Livejournal and bloggers, they send notifications to the original poster on receiving response. This makes two-way conversation possible. I hope people realise the power of active comversations and this becomes a norm in all blogging engines. Yes i completely agree with you - Conversations are satisfying only when they are two-sided. It also applies to conversations in the form of comments, which is hard in many blogging engines ( example the one used here ). The problem with most blogs is that, when somebody replies to your comments they dont send notification ( email would be the best ) to the original commentor, so he needs to come back to the original blog to realise that he has some comments waiting for his response. Unless blogs support notification on response to your comments i guess it would be hard to have active two way conversation. I guess that’s the power of all these community blogging sites like Livejournal and bloggers, they send notifications to the original poster on receiving response. This makes two-way conversation possible. I hope people realise the power of active comversations and this becomes a norm in all blogging engines.

]]> By: Teja http://dan.hersam.com/2005/06/09/responding-to-comments/#comment-6348 Teja Thu, 09 Jun 2005 17:22:15 +0000 /?p=1180#comment-6348 Very well put Dan. Very well put Dan.

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