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Pull in all of the comments from FriendFeed and the other places the discussion is taking place and the benefits will really become overwhelming compared to the marginal loss of not getting your comments indexed by Google.
The partnership that could develop will really finally complete the migration to "Comments 2.0" (yeah 2.0 again).
SezWho+DISQUS+FriendFeed, what else could we ask for?
For starters, how about something that does not exclude other commenting utilities (like Intense Debate, Wordpress, Movable Type) and does not exclude other aggregation services where people comment (like Reddit, Shyftr, Social Median)?
What about something that will allow bloggers not using Disqus the ability to recieve comments pushed to them from social media community services?
Honestly, there's a lot more we could ask for... it's fun to get excited when 2 services are willing to work together to allow data to move more freely, but let's reserve our feelings of utmost salvation for an open solution that empowers multiple services and publishers to all enable two-way data flow among their applications and properties.
in real life most of our conversations are about other people, what they are doing, etc. most of the the time those "other people" are not present, nor do they have a clue ....
and often we are talking about other people's ideas, and how they combine with still other people's ideas, and all of this is going on without those people's presence or understanding or "ownership" of the conversation ... in fact it is a weird concept in real life
another weird concept is the one that says our ideas are our ideas ... 99.9999% of the time we heard them from someone else, or read them, or they are simply in the zeitgeist and obvious to many. they come into our mind from "somewhere", and mostly that is not in our control, what to say of under our ownership ....
so in the current time, where open is becoming far more valuable than closed, to even think about controlling parallel conversations is against the flow of reality. better to put one's attention to what enables the increase of omniscience for all, rather than the hoarding of the resource of communication for a relative few.
We say that 2 brains is better than one. Well, if we can follow conversations regardless of platform, then we are slowly building a world-conscience, a world-discussion.
SezWho+DISQUS+FriendFeed will be the power-trio in my PoV. And I like to add Outbrain.com to the list.
This notion that every comment belongs in a single place is beyond silly... it's dangerously ignorant of the volume of conversation that is possible in today's social media landscape. To take every comment left on one of Scoble's or Arrington's posts, form all over the web, and try to aggregate it into a single thread of comments under the original blog post will render that thread of comments completely valueless and impossible to follow. Talking about this like there is some mysterious "one size fits all" solution that will seat us all on a bullet train to Happy-Town is doing nothing to reach an optimal solution.
Perhaps what we need is a "Pact" that ALL services (from blog software providers, to aggregation services, to comment management services) can become a part of that aims to provide a solution "protocol" that considers all the *people's rights* and possible *options*... (Note I carefully chose the word "protocol" versus "platform"): MicroFormats or Meta Identification for "comment repository" (for fetching existing conversation) and "comment receptacle" (for contributing to the conversation) come to mind. It's not about services going behind a curtain and "teaming up" to wrangle anything... it's about open specifications that bar none from participation. I am more than willing to participate in open discussions with service providers, bloggers, community members, everyone... Open standard implementations are the answer here, and it's not gonna happen overnight, but as long as the ethos of "partnerships" and proprietary APIs are the modus operandi, then this thing will never get better.
http://www.winextra.com/2008/05/28/just-a-wacky...
http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/05/28/blo...
I'd appreciate the FF integration. It would certainly tip me toward installing Disqus on my production sites.
but disqus is probably the best starting point
actually, there's a WP plugin that does FF=>wp.org
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/friendfeed-...
so it's happening already. this is a good thing, a very good thing
the usage of your blog, and my blog are different.
Given that you have invested money into Disqus your
"disqus is probably the best starting point"
comment is self serving.
In future, before you sell the community on your opinions please disclose
your financial relationships.
I am with JS-Kit. We provide Comment, Polls, & Ratings widgets for over
65,000+ blogs worldwide.
Be Well,
Khris, CEO
http://js-kit.com
my blog.
I think people know where I am coming from
And plus, I tried a bunch of things and then went with disqus on my own blog
a long time before I invested in disqus (at least six months before I
invested in disqus)
So my opinion is also based on my experiences as a blogger
I really do think that disqus is the best starting point
fred
This means that that if I reply to a comment on FriendFeed for a blog which supports Disqus, it will show up back on the originating blog. And that will be a MAJOR step forward for me.
DISQUS is the perfect tool. They have "categories" within discussions which I haven't even touched yet.