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Essentially, you’re saying that because you are personally inoffensive enough not to elicit harmful coments, or are tough enough to tolerate the comments your site receives, everyone should tolerate whatever comments their sites receive. You discount entirely the fact that even reading a comment one goes on to expunge or delete can be harmful to a site owner. People write derogatory and pejorative comments *deliberately*. Remove the option and one *never* needs to deal with that degree of abuse.
They’re our blogs, not yours, and our blogs without comments are not the lesser creations you claim they are. You simply do not get to define the medium.
Some of us don’t write blog posts for networking or “conversation” or any such malarkey. Blogs are personal publishing; your claim that they really aren’t blogs unless they are two-way is mere ideology – not to mention hypocritical, given that you still write for a one-way medium, a print newspaper.
And Joe, if you go back and read what I actually wrote -- instead of what you think I wrote -- you'll notice that I didn't say blogs without comments aren't blogs, or that I'm trying to define what is or isn't a blog. I simply said that blogs without comments are missing something -- in my opinion. You're entitled to your own opinion, obviously.
As for my comments being hypocritical, the medium I write for primarily is the Globe's website, which has comments on every news story (with very few exceptions) for the same reasons I referred to in my post above.