Disqus Clout: Fail!

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Man, I really need to step up my commenting game. I'm not saying I need to game the system or whatever.. you know what I'm talking about. Just look at it. It's not good. Even if you don't know what clout is you can guess that three is ...

Disqus Enhancements

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Just a quick newsworthy note, this site uses a community-based comment system called Disqus.  I've been really happy with it so far, and they just made it better! According to their blog, they now have more information in their popup profile. This is the bubble of info you get when ...

Louis Gray: Comments that Live Outside of the Blog, Good or Evil?

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

457999405Louis Gray has a great write-up on different A-list blogger's takes on the thorny issue of comment systems that work in tandem with RSS feeds to allow commenting outside of the blogs the articles were originally written on. One of the more frequently mentioned suggestions for avid Google Reader users is ...

FeedFlare, Disqus and gReader

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

In my last post I asked the question, "how can I show how many comments my entries have in my feed?"  I actually sent an email to TechDirt (since I read their feed and it has that feature) and Dennis Yang (who is on Twitter too!) wrote me a very ...

Feedburn, Baby, Burn

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

I am seriously considering switching to using Feedburner for my blog and comment feeds. This will allow people to subscribe via email without and special work on my part, as well as give me statistics and the possibility of feed ads down the road. What I would REALLY like, is ...

I Fixed a Commenting Issue

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Along with the many tweaks that I can't prevent myself from doing every day to my blog (I'm hoping this tapers off after a while, actually), I realized that I had turned off allowing people to comment unless they were logged in to the site. For some reason, when ...