Commenting on commenting…
Lev Grossman’s column in this week’s Time magazine is all about commenting on blogs and giving people a voice. It applies less to business blogs than personal ones, but it’s still a great read. Especially for those of us who grew up in a world where there were no blogs, and for whom this commenting thing is a late-learned art.
“Maybe commenters are just on one side of a cultural disconnect between two incompatible ideas of what the social conventions of the Internet should be. One is based on the standards of real-world, offline politeness. The other is a kind of communal game in which whoever is cleverest and pushes the most buttons wins.”