by Rob Cottingham | Jun 14, 2006 | Blogging, Politics, Technology
If you have a blog, you’ve had to deal with everything from comment spammers to juvenile flame warriors. Well, brace yourself: your blog may soon pick up a new breed of online pest. According to the folks at Blanton’s and Ashton’s, paid commenters... by Rob Cottingham | Jan 25, 2006 | Blogging, Everything Else, Media Mix
The Washington Post recently shut off comments on its post.blog, following a flurry of angry ripostes to its ombudsman’s clumsy handling of complaints over the paper’s coverage of the Jack Abramoff affair. Commenting has been partly restored; you now have... by Rob Cottingham | Jun 13, 2005 | Blogging, Technology
It’s an article of faith among the digerati that one of the things that keeps people coming back to your site is a community: the opportunity to interact, both with the site’s authors and with other visitors. Now there’s a little more proof, and it...