Disqus - Latest Comments for jasoncartwright

Re: Disqus Forks Into Two Products, Launches Revamped Real-Time Comment System

WordSkill — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:58:32 -0000

I disagree, video commenting has huge potential, not as a replacement for text comments but as good way to add an entirely different level of content to discussions - nobody wants to listen to some boring guy spend three minutes rambling on, rather than quickly scanning down a thread of text comments, but there are situations in which video allows you to quickly show something relevant to the discussion or to indisputably prove that you are who you say you are, etc.

As users, we needed time to figure out the appropriate uses for video and the companies hoping to dominate the form needed to lower the barriers to acceptance, to make it as quick and easy as possible for curious experimenters to get started, so that video comments could gain momentum, visibility and, eventually, mainstream acceptance.

Unfortunately, Seesmic's implementation was particularly bad, pushing too hard to get users to sign up to Seesmic and all but hiding the option to post anonymously. Loic was so desperate to build up short-term numbers to reassure his nervous investors that he missed the opportunity to make video commenting as easy as simply pushing a button, instead forcing users to jump through the hoops of yet another registration process, enough to persuade most already shy users not to bother.

What was needed, for the idea to take off, was for the companies with an interest in video commenting to take a long-term view, to realize that they had to establish the concept, the habit of video commenting BEFORE they could start trying to cash in or adding to their dubious and essentially meaningless user numbers.

As a result, now, the common wisdom is that video commenting was simply a bad idea but, in fact, it was just bad luck that the companies involved were sloppy, lacked vision and desperate to placate their investors.

It is a pity but I am sure that, at some point, someone with an understanding of user psychology will give the concept another shot and get it right.

Re: Disqus Forks Into Two Products, Launches Revamped Real-Time Comment System

mikeflynn — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:20:52 -0000

I didn't think video comments are all bad, it just replies to some conversations more than others.

Letting the blog owner turn on and off video embeds would be a nice feature.

Re: Disqus Forks Into Two Products, Launches Revamped Real-Time Comment System

jasoncartwright — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:35:18 -0000

Let's hope so. Stupid fad.

Re: Blog Redesign - Jason Cartwright

bingu — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:08:03 -0000

I changed the ico some day ago, and it is OK now.
Thanks for this interesting info. :)

Re: Blog Redesign - Jason Cartwright

jasoncartwright — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:26:48 -0000

Quicker to just build something myself. Already had all the content in a database and couldn't be bothered to port it all to some other structure. Also didn't want to mess about making it not look like every other Wordpress blog theme.

Re: Blog Redesign - Jason Cartwright

jasoncartwright — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:22:03 -0000

Hum... not sure why that is. Might be your robots.txt disallowing access to it?

That URL does take quite a while to load (about 10sec from London) - perhaps Google is trying to load the favicon up on the fly but can't get to it?

Re: Ad Blocking, and why its a bad thing - Jason Cartwright

jasoncartwright — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:58:20 -0000

No hassle Viper - your comment is still valid

Re: The best Jeremy Clarkson quotes

jasoncartwright — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:41:51 -0000

Also known for being rather a prat - http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/dec/20/politi...

Re: Mike's Blog

jasoncartwright — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:11:12 -0000

Quite right. Exactly what I decided to do - no compromises due to the platform you're using and dead easy to integrate comments with disqus.

http://www.jasoncartwright.com

Re: Blog Redesign - Jason Cartwright

jasoncartwright — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:15:30 -0000

Uh ho. Perhaps I don't recommend disqus so much then. I heard they had downtime the other day too.

Re: Jason Cartwright

jasoncartwright — Mon, 26 May 2008 14:26:01 -0000

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