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Who Owns All These Comments? You? Us? Someone Else?
Hank Williams relates a story about one of Robert Scoble's comments on FriendFeed being deleted after the author of the blog post he was commenting one removed his FriendFeed account. While the cynical response might be, "So one of the ten million comments Scoble leaves each day was delete -- he'll live," it does bring up a valid point about content ownership. The blog owner was upset that his the discussion around his content was taking place outside of his blog, while Scoble was upset that content he created (and thus should own -- right?) was removed without his permission. On an increasingly fragmented social web, who owns your comments?
YackTrack Gets Updated, Adds Chatter
At the end of April, we covered the launch of YackTrack, a new tool that helps fight the conversation fragmentation issues. The service provides a method for tracking the conversations taking place around your content. You just enter a URL and it searches sites like Digg, Disqus, FriendFeed, Mixx, StumbleUpon, Technorati, and WordPress to find who is saying what.
Track Distributed Conversations With YackTrack
Not too long ago, we discussed the problem of conversation fragmentation in the blogosphere and how new services, like FriendFeed, as well as old services, like Digg, were providing places to have conversations about a blog post off of the blog's web site itself. While many saw this trend as a natural evolution, some, mainly content producers, were upset, now having to check several different places around the web to track conversations about their content. However, for Rob Diana (aka "Regular Geek"), the discussion around this issue served as an inspiration to build a service that can help: YackTrack.
Blog Comments Still Matter
Over the weekend, this post on Paul Graham's blog got a lot of attention. The title was "How to Disagree," and it focused on the different types of negative, or disagreeing, blog comments. As Matthew Greensmith of Geek News Central called it, it was "a true geek masterpiece." Paul listed all the different types of disagreements (as related to blog comments) on a hierarchical scale from DH0 (name-calling) to DH6 (refuting the central point). And while the varying levels of disagreement detailed in the post were right on target, the question that came to mind is "what about agreement?" Why is it that positive reactions to blog posts are so much harder to come by? And how can bloggers get more of them?
Comment of the Day: Lifestreaming Helps Blog Comments
Today we have 2 prizes to give away. They both come from a very appropriate post from Sarah Perez: The Conversation Has Left the Blogosphere. In it, Sarah noted that "a lot of new aggregation services and lifestreaming applications [have] come into play recently", which may be dragging discussions off blogs and onto the likes of FriendFeed, digg, and Mixx. Ironically perhaps, there were a lot of great comments on our post! ;-) Two I enjoyed explained how lifestreaming apps can actually help blogs get comments.
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