While many other media organizations have gotten rid of their reader comments, including Reuters and Bloomberg, the New York Times says it plans to expand its commenting features and invest more… Read more »
Guardian digital editor and former New York Times staffer Aron Pilhofer says media outlets are making a monumental mistake by ending comments, instead of focusing on how they can use them… Read more »
Many media sites are deciding to shut down reader comments because they have become troll and spam-filled cesspools — but why not show how much you value readers by spending the… Read more »
A survey done by the commenting platform Disqus shows that readers see comments posted by those using pseudonyms as being just as trustworthy as those using real names Read more »
Reuters says the conversation about news content has moved to social platforms like Twitter and Facebook, so it is removing the ability for readers to comment on its stories — but… Read more »
Disqus, one of the largest comment-hosting platforms on the web, is launching a feature that could add sponsored comments to the sites of many leading publishers — but that seems unlikely… Read more »
Even as it announces a move to a swanky uptown New York office, Gawker Media remains a work in progress, says founder Nick Denton — especially the somewhat balky commenting/blogging platform… Read more »
Many media outlets seem to believe that by forcing readers to use their real identities, they will solve the problem of bad comments — but in reality, all they are doing… Read more »
A post by long-time tech blogger Dan Gillmor about the decline of the “indie web” got me thinking about the old days of the blogosphere, and how powerful the unedited voice… Read more »
We are surrounded by social tools and the interactive web, and yet many journalists and media outlets — both mainstream and digital-native — still fail to use these tools to create… Read more »