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Does Anybody Care About Non-Blog Commenting Anymore?

Submitted by Magitam from Google Reader

Nov 14, 2008

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This Spring, when the tech blogosphere discovered Shyftr, a next-generation RSS reader, had launched with comments on their service, alongside full feeds, you would have thought they'd barged into bloggers' homes in the dead of night, stealing their money, their laptops and punching them around besides. Despite comments from me and others who believed this to be a natural progression of RSS readers and aggregators, their missteps landed them on virtual page one, and they haven't really escaped the many bad things thrown their way since.

But since Shyftr's unfortunate early flub, we have seen sites that are centered around other people's contents continue to grow in popularity, and in many cases, they feature conversations that are native to the service, but don't flow back to the blog. Meanwhile, some are doing more than just featuring a headline, but have excerpts that can at times display the vast majority or the entirety of a blog post. Has the Web collectively grown numb to this, and have we accepted this as "fair use"?

One tech developer wrote me yesterday ...Read the full article

Comments (4)

Louisgray,

Nov 14, 2008

Interestingly, the full content of this piece is here, and it is well past 1,100 characters. I wonder if I turned on full feeds at some point. Interesting.

Jasongoldberg,

Nov 14, 2008

This is a bug. Now I see what the individual was asking about. Looking into it! @louisgray

Nishith,

Nov 14, 2008

@louisgray @jasongoldberg Unfortunately there was a bug because of which all the stories submitted by users' sites (twitter, blog, google reader) were not getting truncated to 1100 characters. We have fixed it now. Now the only exception to this rule is if the user manually enters a news through our Add Something widget or our bookmarklet.

Louisgray,

Nov 14, 2008

@nishith @jasongoldberg thanks for the update on the truncating bug. That would explain why I was contacted as they said they saw "page after page" that had gone through in full. Appreciate your response and keep up the good work!