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Seth Godin Replies to Why Comments are Important on your Blog
Here is Seth Godin’s response to this post and to your comments:
Hi Chris
Thanks for the note. And thanks to everyone who has taken the time to post such thoughtful comments.
I’m actually not asking ANYONE to trust me. That’s not the point of the work. The point is to give people something to think about. So I think Pete’s headline is misleading. There are plenty of institutions and individuals I trust, by the way, who don’t enable comments…
The bigger issue is about “should.†I have a problem when people say what a medium should or must have. A novel must not have pictures, or a blog must have comments. If you think that Boingboing, Cuban, Winer and I have misnamed our blogs, you’re welcome to, but I’m not sure it’s worth all the letters spilled over it.
So, I guess my takeaway is that a few people would really like all blogs (including mine) to have comments. My post about why I don’t have them stands… I just don’t have the constitution. I read my email, I read my trackbacks, I listen to my readers more than almost any successful author since Gutenberg got into publishing. If that’s not enough, I guess I have to shrug and acknowledge I can’t please everyone.
Thoughts?
I would have to agree with him, being that a blog is one of personal thought and interest and is completely left to the discretion of the author.
In this newly defined web, who is to say what should and what shouldn’t be?
Left by Kory Hoopes on 01/03/2007In this newly defined web, who is to say what should and what shouldn’t be?
Jakob Nielsen, of course.
Left by Connor on 01/03/2007That’s why Godin is Godin. I think that way too often in life, marketing, business, etc… people think there is a “way” things should be, and it just isn’t so. He has a knack for thinking about things in a way that other people don’t.
He talks about the “purple cow” principle all the time because that’s the way he thinks about problems.
Left by Russell Page on 01/03/2007[...] Chris Knudsen is now my second friend to get a response from Seth Godin. I’ll sum it up for you: Chris publicly wonders why Seth doesn’t allow comments on his blog. Seth replies: it’s my blog and I’ll do what I want with it. Seth says he’s not trying to start conversations, he’s trying to make people think. He has plenty of other ways (perhaps too many) to converse. He views his blog posts as published works. Dig it? Share it:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]
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