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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Video and voice in online communities - 2008 saw an increase in the number of sites that accept comments using video or voice as well as chat. Tags: Charlie Osmond community conversations layered communications online communities predicitons research communities social networks video commenting video comment Time for a prediction: layered communications - a mixing of text, speech and video - will become a key issue for online communities in 2010 and beyond.
Two things this week got me thinking about the place for layered communications in online communities and social networks.
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Sunday, March 7, 2010
Should people be allowed to leave anonymous comments in online communities and forums? The issue of anonymity when commenting in online communities is actually more complicated than some arguments would suggest. When talking about anonymous comments we need to consider two types of anonymity:
Image by loungerie via Flickr
It’s a question that has been debated many times and people have different perspectives on it.
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Monday, February 8, 2010
WebWorkerDaily has got a very interesting and thought-provoking blog post where they are actually questioning the worthiness of having comments turned on in a blog, whether for personal or business use, given the recent happenings of very popular blogs finally deciding to turn comments off for now. Turn comments on. That WebWorkerDaily article surely is a good read providing lots of insightful thoughts on what are some of the pros and cons of such a bold move. Well, here’s my take: keep them!
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Twitter, on the other hand is not really built for connecting with people - its real value comes from the comments and contributions that are added to its database and that can then be searched.
ZDNet is reporting that Google has soft-launched public comments on search results:
But when I was looking at the results page, I noticed a little comment icon. Image by manfrys via Flickr
People are often comparing Twitter with Facebook.
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Sunday, November 8, 2009
Comments on Blogs and Forums
Blogs and forums need comments to thrive. Comment often require links to be meaningful or to identify the commenter. Comments which are completely devoid of links have a sterile quality, so some degree of linking is necessary and desirable.
As I No aspect of the Internet is more critical to understand than hyperlinks or simply links, as we call them. After all, what is the World Wide Web but countless documents which are interconnected by links?
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Monday, March 19, 2007
Collaborative Document Writing: Online Word Processor Puts The Turbo On Comments Features - Coventi Pages Web applications continue to grow in number, offering easy ways to work both on and off-line with your documents and opening up more opportunities for online collaboration. new online word processor promises to bring document editing to the next level, by adding precision commenting features that set it apart from the existing slew of collaborative writing applications out there, and the good news is that it is entirely free. Photo credit: Didier Kobi We have
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Monday, April 6, 2009
Jeff McKenna recently started the Agile Development Blog to share his thoughts on Agile development and the broader issues of team dynamics that go beyond Agile and software. Jeff is an Agile evangelist for Serena Software and long time participant in Agile and preceding modes of software development. As the tagline states, “In this blog we explore topics, issues, questions and puzzles regarding Agile Software Development
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
It reminds me of an off-comment by Fritjof Capra who said a while back that my work amounts to a complexity approach without the jargon. Roy Christopher on Culture, Computers, and Communities: Two Recent Books
Thanks, Thanks, Roy. I
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Apologies to those who have been trying to post comments, we have just migrated our system and there’s a bug in the new environment which affects the Captcha utility. We’ve switched off Captcha until it’s fixed, and gone to moderation instea
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Saturday, November 29, 2008
Since restarting this blog, I decided to offload commenting to a webservice from Six Apart called TypePad Connect . Basically, over a couple of years, I had collected over 500,000 spam comments. The idea behind TypePad Connect is that they handle all comment management, including spam removal, and basically republish the comments on your blog. When I went to upgrade the blog and clean all of that out, the system stalled. I
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