Tag Archives: conversation fragmentation

Disqus “Social Media Reactions” Now Available To The Public?

What was once a Mashable exclusive feature may now be available to every blog using the Disqus commenting system. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Social Media Reactions! (See Mashable’s post for an in-depth review: Mashable, Disqus, and UberVU Launch Social Media Comments.) Hat tip to Wayne Sutton for the tip off!           Social Media [...]

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Comments: Are They For The Author Or The Audience?

Everyday we crank out posts for readers to respond. We try to contribute to the conversation. We aim to solve a problem or have a problem solved for us by our readers. Everyday. The overall point is to receive feedback among other things. Can we all agree with that?Yet, there’s a huge stir about conversation [...]

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Self Inflicted Un-Friendly(feed)

As of lately, members of the social aggregator Friendfeed are really starting to piss people off (including me). Here’s a look at why.        Attitude Problem The elitist attitude problem is definitely starting to take over on Friendfeed. Users are being down right rude to bloggers who have various issues with Friendfeed. For example, David [...]

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You Don’t Own ANY Conversation

I’m actually going to keep this post simple. You don’t really own anything you put on the web, but there are various things like Creative Common licenses and what not to make you feel as if you do. Get Real! This is the internet and quite frankly, EVERYTHING is for the taking, whether you wish [...]

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Conversation Fragmentation: Bloggers Have Duties

There’s been a lot of controversy surrounding conversation fragmentation, these are my thoughts on the duties that we as bloggers have to ensure that we give others their due respect. What is Conversation Fragmentation? Sarah Perez of both the Grand Effect blogging network and Read/WriteWeb wrote an article on her blog Sarah In Tampa entitled [...]

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