DISQUS

Phil Harnish · 1 year ago

socialthing doesn't support disqus yet. They have a voting system to prioritize adoption. They are quite far behind several other services so vote for them.

Remember, socialthing is different from many other life streams because it learns your friends (and matches their profile with their other services).

nicefishfilms · 1 year ago

Louis, I agree with you that it is getting harder to find the original source and context now that there are multiple broadcast points. This almost goes back to doing interviews for documentaries, trying to get the subject to rephrase the original question in their response. I would like to see someone come up with a "best practices" guide for this, your (Louis Gray) suggestion of trying to 'craft the signal around the noise' is terrific. It does take a little extra effort but if we truly care about the value of the 'content' then we should treat it so.

Kurt Vonnegut said it best, "Why should you examine your writing style with the idea of improving it? Do so as a mark of respect for your readers, whatever you're writing. If you scribble your thoughts any which way, your readers will surely feel that you care nothing about them. They will mark you down as an egomaniac or a chowderhead --- or, worse, they will stop reading you." (source= http://literature.sdsu.edu/onWRITING/vonnegutST...)

philbaumann · 1 year ago

I've been concerned about comment fragmentation, but I didn't really think about how context can get fragmented and displaced too. I suppose we'll have to establish a new comment etiquette and sensibility.

But: how much more should we add in order to establish context. On one hand I'm contributing to noise by not ensuring context with extra text; on the other, I could be contributing more noise by adding too much "context" text.

Now, I'm curious to see if my comment makes sense on FF, Disqus...

robdiana · 1 year ago

Louis, you raise an interesting point regarding context. I am not sure that people really want to add more text, just to provide context for other people. Twitter does not work that way, mainly because of the length restrictions. Also, these newer services (FF, twitter, etc), promote the conversation, meaning you will probably write closer to the way you speak. When having an in-person conversation, you rarely provide context, unless someone joins the conversation late. This is a slightly different question, when do you provide context because the conversation has left the original venue?

Shey · 1 year ago

Wow, this is a total coincidence -- I posted a FF message similar to this topic earlier today: http://friendfeed.com/e/20e80c02-b865-4451-b346...

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