Mathew's comments - Latest Comments in Disqus and the comment-o-sphere

Re: Disqus and the comment-o-sphere

tutor1 — Wed, 20 May 2009 06:07:05 -0000

Probably one of the hardest things anyone can do is try and learn something new. Congrats to anyone who tries.

Re: Disqus and the comment-o-sphere

Mathew — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:34:19 -0000

Thanks, Daniel.

Re: Disqus and the comment-o-sphere

danielha — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:29:51 -0000

I posted a response on Jitendra's blog post as well. It's a good discussion to have.

Mathew,

Oddly coincidental about the Disqus deactivation on this entry. :)

Our implementation of trackbacks was supposed to be in for beta 2. Missed the deadline, but it's almost there.

Re: Disqus and the comment-o-sphere

Jitendra — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:35:38 -0000

See my take at
http://www.sezwho.com/blog/2008/03/18/disqus-ra...

Re: Disqus and the comment-o-sphere

Corvida — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:27:29 -0000

I had no clue that they didn't have trackback links.

Regardless, I think Disqus is a neat system and can be very useful when dealing with comments. So many people forget to come back and check for replies and I think it solves that problem and allows for the conversation to continue, when it usually dies out because people forget to come back and respond.

Re: Disqus and the comment-o-sphere

Mathew — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:54:05 -0000

Thanks for the comment, Fred -- maybe I overstated that a bit, or put it badly.

I just meant that comment systems such as Disqus are better the more people use them and the more comments that are aggregated by them. As I think you're suggesting, that could be accomplished in a number of different ways.

Meanwhile, in some kind of bizarre coincidence, for some reason Disqus didn't get activated on this post.

Re: Disqus and the comment-o-sphere

fred wilson — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:46:26 -0000

matthew,

i don't think everyone needs to use disqus for the vision i outlined to happen.

i suspect that once everyone sees the power of unlocking comments from the ghetto of blog hosts, that we'll see a lot of innovation and cooperation from all the players including the blog hosts themselves

fred

Re: Disqus and the comment-o-sphere

alex — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:25:31 -0000

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cant find on the web
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lmknw

Re: Disqus and the comment-o-sphere

Colin McKay — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:29:39 -0000

You know, those hints about possible uses for comments imply that Disqus will have some level of control over comments, and will use them out of context in a separate application.

That might be appealing to some people, but wouldn't it mean that Disqus would wield control over ALL comments in its system?