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 ...

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 ...

As business owners, we know that our content is the best way to convince first-time visitors to become subscribers. People enjoy reading content that resonates with their interests, goals and pain ...

Mark Cuban co-founded Broadcast.com, a provider of online multimedia and streaming services, which was sold to Yahoo! in July of 1999. Prior to that, he co-founded systems integrator MicroSolutions, ...

BackType, a Y Combinator startup that launched in August, is a sort of “Twitter for comments” that aggregates comments from millions of blogs into a single, searchable, parsable stream. Today they ...

What if scholarly books were peer reviewed by anonymous blog comments rather than by traditional, selected peer reviewers? That’s the question being posed by an unusual experiment that begins today.

If you are one of the 164 million-plus people or businesses that publish a blog, you may be interested to hear that, according to social-media experts, blog comments are dead. Over. Nada. If this ...

I am a strong believer in freedom of speech. But what about a (fortunately rare) complete anonymous comment to one of my blog pieces, “How can you write such stupid shit?” The first time something ...

What if scholarly books were peer reviewed by anonymous blog comments rather than by traditional, selected peer reviewers? That’s the question being posed by an unusual experiment that began last week ...

Blog comments are like the graffiti of the untamed digital continent. Some are helpful, like the spray paint on the fence that says “beware of dog.” Others are very impressive, like a beautiful mural.