Comments on: Why bloggers must come clean

By: msmerle

msmerle — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:36:29 +0000

Interesting Read- RT @sazbean: Why bloggers must come clean – http://bit.ly/ZNZzN

By: sazbean

sazbean — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:24:41 +0000

Why bloggers must come clean – http://bit.ly/ZNZzN

By: Jim Connolly

Jim Connolly — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:29:52 +0000

Hello Louis,

Welcome to the blog and thanks or the comment.

By: Louis Gray

Louis Gray — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:12:45 +0000

1) Thanks for the comments, Mark.
2) Disqus is great. Disqus and JS-Kit both have solid commenting platforms, and they are smart enough to build tools that ease transitions, should they ever occur. I have used Disqus for a few years and can track all activity on my blog and on my personal ID around the Web.

By: Jim Connolly

Jim Connolly — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:58:37 +0000

Mark,

Regarding Louis Gray – he’s got a great point there. A VERY smart cookie!

Regarding Disqus, I REALLY don’t like the idea of being tied to a platform.

If you use Diqus, you have to keep using it – or your comments will be fragmented if you remove it.

That’s because you have comments on your blog (which you keep) that answer points made on social media platforms that Disqus pulls in (which you lose.) End result, if you leave Disqus, you have comments on your blog, where people are replying to comments that are no longer there!

HOWEVER:
I will soon be switching this blog over to Headway, which allows threaded comments.

By: Mark Essel

Mark Essel — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:52:16 +0000

Any chance of getting DISQUS here Jim, it makes for nice threaded comments and a shared repository for our comments (plus it feeds into my friendfeed and potentially other aggregators for greater blog visibility).

By: Mark Essel

Mark Essel — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:46:55 +0000

Couldn’t agree more Jim. Conditional information that can affect our opinions should be aired out in the open. Business relationships and potential revenues that are made transparent help to complete readers image of our perspective.

Louis Gray had a great point that our blogs could have little certificate boxes somewhere out of the way with a list of our business connections, and financial deals (not a disclaimer or license agreement but the same sort of openly available info).

By: Jim Connolly

Jim Connolly — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:13:03 +0000

Thanks for the comment.

However, as they say, ignorance of the law is no defence.

By: Urlreviews

Urlreviews — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:00:09 +0000

another law that is not really fair, in order to follow it you would at least have to know it exist and well the average blogger is not going to have a clue this law exist.

By: Jim Connolly

Jim Connolly — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:49:44 +0000

I think something needs to be done, because consumers are getting ripped off by people writing fake pay-per-post reviews and such – which is totally wrong.

As a UK based blogger, I would like to know who is covered by the rulings.