Let’s just forget the last seven years of social media ever happened, and go back to decentralized blogs & forums, albeit with better tools.
Tag Archives: blogs
URLs worth caring about
I like seeing URLs, whether in the link text or by hovering over a link. They are often truer to their content than what the person adding the link writes. I always have the status bar turned on in my browsers. It annoys me that there is no status bar on the iPad. It pleases [...]
TailRank Has Comments
One of my favorite web apps for finding news is TailRank. TailRank indexes thousands of blogs, and shows news that is that is being discussed by lots of legitimate bloggers. On their page, there are a bunch of stories, each with one main blog and a sampling of other blogs that reference the story. If [...]
Thoughts on Closing Blog Comments
Right now I’m reading David Heinemeier Hansson’s Blog back to front, and it got me thinking: It’s a common practice to close down blog comments after a certain amount of time, especially on popular sites. I noticed that DHH’s site still allows people to enter a comment and press submit, even on the oldest entries. [...]