WebProNews » blog comments http://www.webpronews.com Breaking News in Tech, Search, Social, & Business Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:03:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Blogger Gives Commenters Faces http://www.webpronews.com/blogger-gives-commenters-faces-2009-09 http://www.webpronews.com/blogger-gives-commenters-faces-2009-09#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:21:02 +0000 Chris Crum http://www.webpronews.com/?p=51471 Blogger has extended the comments feature it annoucned last year, which lets users embed comments and the commenting form below blog posts. The feature has been extended to display profile images next to comments that blog visitors write.

]]> Blogger has extended the comments feature it annoucned last year, which lets users embed comments and the commenting form below blog posts. The feature has been extended to display profile images next to comments that blog visitors write.

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"Though profile images have been available with the other commenting options, we are happy to bring them to embedded comments as part of the Blogger Birthday feature series," says Lu Chen of the Google-owned Blogger.

The series Chen refers to has so far included things like:

- a partnership with Blog2Print tha allows users to turn their blogs into books

- a partnership with Widgetbox , which allows users to turn blogs into widgets

- jump breaks, which let bloggers show a snippet of a post on the blog’s index page with a "read more" link

- the SocialVibe gadget, which lets bloggers earn donations for charitable causes

- the Blogger NavBar, which lets blog readers click to share blog posts/blog hompages

- the label cloud and selected labels – extensions of the labels gadget

- the send to feature, which lets users send posts to Blogger

- support for the PubSubHubbub protocol

As part ot today’s announcement, Blogger has also made it easier to upload profile pictures when you leave a comment. From the comment preview, users can just click "add a photo" and upload one. The next time they comment on any Blogger blog, their photo will appear.

]]> http://www.webpronews.com/blogger-gives-commenters-faces-2009-09/feed 1 Logging in to Comment http://www.webpronews.com/logging-in-to-comment-2007-01 http://www.webpronews.com/logging-in-to-comment-2007-01#comments Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:57:08 +0000 Thomas McMahon http://www.webpronews.com/?p=34909 One of my pet peeves with blogs is when they require you to login to comment.

Why should I have to login? What do I get out of it?

Some blogs do have a lot of visitors and use logins to control un-wanted comments. In this case, I can see logging-in as a way to control quality. However most blogs don’t get thousands of visitors an hour and have no need to require a login.

Lets not get this confused with spam. If you are getting lots of spam, get a spam plugin.

Even worse are those blogs that say ‘You must be logged in to comment’ but you can’t login because you haven’t registered and you can’t register because they never activated that feature on the blog. Then they wonder why they never get comments on their blog.

In my opinion, blog comments should be open to everyone and registration should not be required. If you do need to register, then the user should get additional value out of doing so.

What do you think?

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Thomas McMahon is a SEO Designer for TopRank Online Marketing in Minneapolis, MN. His specialities inlude technical optimization of existing web sites, creating search engine friendly web designs, and blog optimization. He has also created a number of blog marketing tools, WordPress plug-ins and FireFox add-ons.

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