By: Dave Birch

Dave Birch — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:21:43 +0000

The point about comments is very well made. I am toying with the idea of beginning to include comments but there are a couple of problems that I think need to be thought through. Assuming that I change the blog page to somewhere say “All comments are concerned to be licenced blah blah” and that people are still happy to post, I would want to be able to edit comments just as I edit the post when making the printed version. And I don’t want to deal with e-mails of the kind “why did you include comment X but not my comment”, that sort of thing. But thanks for raising the idea.
It’s too late for this year’s blook (because almost three-quarters of it is already edited), but when I close off the 2008 version (end of February) I will consider the issue again. In the meantime, I’ll start a thread later in the week to gather comments.

By: Iang

Iang — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:47:15 +0000

The blog book is very interesting, I have a copy of the last year … and I’m watching the experiment with interest.
What I did find disappointing is that comments are not included. I heard one argument that licensing is problematic, but I don’t buy it. A post on a blog comes with an implied licence, it isn’t so hard to write to the blog authors to extend, and it is easy enough to put a 9 word licence agreement on the site somewhere. “You give us the right to publish your comment…”
There’s also a question of effort & reward: what incentive is there for someone like myself to spend my valuable Sunday afternoon to write a good comment to a good post, when all the popularity is captured entirely by the blog owner?

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