Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Commenting on blogs

Naturally, when someone reads an article or writings, thoughts will start to form in their mind and most of the time, they will want to express it somewhere.

Commenting facility available in blog software is one way to allow the above to happen. The success blog software achieves till date is due to one reason. Communication. Commenting facility allows feedback from readers to the author, almost immediately after the article is published.

Commenting facility allows readers to voice their opinion to the author and in many cases, the author will reply.

Commenting also creates bonding between the author and its' readers. Sometimes the bonding can be so close until friendship is tied.

Commenting creates interconnectivity between blogs on blog sphere. The commenting facility on blog allows readers to leave their blog's address on the comment itself. This will allow the author, in return, to visit its readers' blogs.

The comments allows "Web Spiders" to crawl through the blog and finding itself next target via links provided by readers. It is some sort of like making a big road directory of blog highways. Some "Web Spiders" are Google bots, MSN, Iktomi and so on.

Comments provided to the author must be constructive, NOT destructive. It is because the article was written by the author on its own web space and readers must respect that. Even if the reader doesn't like what they read, it is good to contact the author directly rather than commenting.

Comments must be short and straight to the point. The reader must bear in mind that they are on other people's "land".


In conclusion, commenting on blogs is important. So, start commenting now. :D

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You are so right. Blogging and the whole Web 2.0 manifesto exist because of the community that participates and collaborate.

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