Comments on blogs will disappear?

I know that Scoble has an impact on the Blogosphere, but the idea I've found on his blog today is not good for me.

I don't know exactly what there's under the "secret new technology that makes the tech blogging world even flatter" but saying that comments will be unnecessary is a bad idea. Scoble says that in the future "all you need to do to leave a comment on my blog is to have a blog yourself and link to it",  because there will be systems that'll match up -- in minutes -- a main post and all the comments being made about that post.

Sure, this sounds cool because it's like a powered trackback system, but if blogs will loose the standard comment system they're loosing its nature. Although sometimes I use this method (when I think I've something to say to the community about a blog post just read, sometimes I like to respond to the original post with a new post on my blog, like now) I think that one of the wonderful feature that a blog have is the power to be commented. Users that reads your posts can leave their opinion quicly and in a permanent way directly on your blog, and this is a lovely way to do that I don't want to loose.

So, welcome to the new "trackback system", but please keep alive the standard way to blog... I want to be commented!

Print | posted on Thursday, June 30, 2005 9:42 PM

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# re: Comments on blogs will disappear?

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As one of my long-time favorite bloggers, let me be the first to leave you a comment directly to your blog post.

I must say, I didn't read Scoble's description of this integrated system, but it does sound interesting. We'd all be feeding into this big blogging channel and lose some of our individuality in the process. Or maybe I'm just being negative. A "powered trackback system" as you said, does sound appealling to keep subject discussions in one place/channel/whatever.
Left by Dave Burke on Jul 01, 2005 1:23 AM

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It will be sure a cool system to share informations, but I don't want to loose the pleasure to directly comment a blog.
Left by Stefano Demiliani on Jul 01, 2005 6:30 AM

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