tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2007://1/tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2006://1.7771- 2007-12-03T11:50:15Z Comments for Blogs as conversation Jack Vinson writes about knowledge management, personal effectiveness, theory of constraints and more. As of December 2007 Jack will likely start writing about product management too. Movable Type 4.01 tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2006://1.7771.3263 Comment from Amy Gahran on 2006-01-25 Amy Gahran http://rightconversation.com Hi, Jack

Thanks for mentioning my article. To put it in context, that piece was a followup to an earlier article, "Missing the Conversation for the Blogs"
- http://snipurl.com/luky

Although blogs are getting a ton of attention currently, I personally think much of that coverage and discussion misses the fact that blogs are but one aspect of a far broader and more significant phenomenon: the rise of conversational media.

Blogs currently play a key role in the popularization of conversational media. However, they also have several drawbacks in that regard, too. Hence, my "10 reasons" article. It was intended as suggestions for focusing future development of blogs and other kinds of conversational media.

Because, after all, people talk. That's what we do.

- Amy Gahran
Contentious.com
RightConversation.com

]]> 2006-01-25T22:01:30Z 2006-01-25T22:01:30Z tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2006://1.7771.p3919 Trackback in article Blog comments as football game trash talking from jotsheet jotsheet http://underscorebleach.net/jotsheet/2006/02/blog-trash-talking

The weblog format demands comments, but comments in blogs are not well-suited to a complicated conversation. The situation can quickly devolve into something akin to football game trash talking. [Read More]

2006-02-04T19:14:33Z 2006-02-04T19:14:33Z tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2006://1.7771.p3924 Trackback in article Facts and conversations from Knowledge Jolt with Jack Knowledge Jolt with Jack http://blog.jackvinson.com/archives/2006/02/04/facts_and_conversations.html

David Weinberger has a nice piece on Fact-based ethics for bloggers , and I think it actually adds a bit to the ideas about blogs as a vehicle for conversations. [Read More]

2006-02-05T04:12:41Z 2006-02-05T04:12:41Z tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2006://1.7771.3282 Comment from Edward Vielmetti on 2006-02-06 Edward Vielmetti http://www.superpatron.com Jack, you know, comments are kind of messy right now. Blog postings are first class items in the RSS data streams with their own elaborately worked out data formats and syndication eight ways from Sunday, but you just try to gather up all the comments that you leave if you actually visit the blogs in question.

One problem that's immediately apparent is that feed readers like Bloglines actively neuter comments - you might hope that they'd have a little box right under each post for you to stick in your $0.02, but instead it's a multiclick process to get to the right step in most cases. (Feedburner makes that a little bit easier with their Feedflare, if you have a blogging platform you can wedge that into.)

I'm half tempted to just give up on feed readers and go direct to blogs and focus on the comments only.

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