Last month, an improbable Internet exchange inspired many who noticed it to reconsider what's possible when debating politics online. It began when MIT professor Scott Aaronson published a blog post ...

Continuing its march to Google’s beat, Facebook has taken another major step towards dominating both the social Web and your blog with its first social widget, called the Comment Box. Built on ...

Now for the exciting part-2 conclusion of last week’s surprisingly controversial post: 10 types of blog comments (Part 1). Make sure you read Part 1 first to get caught up. I had a lot of excellent ...

A few months ago I decided to turn my blog into a do-follow blog to see if it helps increase activity, but honestly I can’t really say how much it’s helped or not. Sure, I’ve gotten some spam comments ...

The year 2007 heralded the 10-year anniversary of the first blog. Since then, blogs have grown to number over 100 million. Although the first blog was just a collection of Web links, blog postings now ...

CoComment is experimenting with a new way for people to keep track of all of the comments they leave on various blogs. To use CoComment, a user must install a bookmarklet on their browser and use that ...

Chris Cesare in Nature reported on Friday that Terence Tao successfully attacked the Erdős discrepancy problem by building on an online collaboration. Tao is a professor in the math department at UCLA ...

For most marketers, the goals of content marketing are relatively simple. In planning and writing your business blog, you look to improve web traffic by focusing on SEO, establish thought leadership ...

I was intrigued a while back when I read fellow blogger Donna Flagg's article on the psychology of comment boards found here. As bloggers, we are ostensibly galaxies away from celebritydom, and yet ...