I’m going to start taking John Gruber’s approach to commenting on blogs. He’s semi-famous for turning off comments on his blog and taking the approach of “write on your own blog”. It’s not a bad idea. This is why trackbacks exist.
Don’t worry, I won’t be tweeting everything I comment on, but it’s easier for me to find articles that I’ve commented on if the comments exist in a realm where I have control. I don’t comment in a lot of places, but the ones I do have some specific reasons for me being interested in them.
I’ve pretty much quit commenting on the huge blogs (Mashable, Techcrunch) because I don’t really add value. If a story is interesting enough from one of them I’ll talk about it and link to it, but otherwise.
The goals in this approach:
- Archiving what I’ve found interesting for future reference
- Giving some exposure to the blog I’m commenting on
- More content for my site
- Comment on more posts
Also, the comments are my thoughts, and content that I’m creating in the first place. I put a lot of thought into the comments I write and they never consist of “Great post! I’ll keep reading”. My comments are my own thoughts and that’s kind of what a blog is for.
Besides that it will give some more insight into who Dez is. Often times I don’t get around to publishing my opinions on things that are happening. I’m not going to turn off commenting on my blog like John did, but it’d be cool if you tracked back as well.
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