Email is great and everything folks, but I miss conversations. Thankfully, blogging has developed wonderful technology for encouraging interaction between an author and an audience. I can send an email to many of you but I get a flood of responses back, each of which stands entirely alone. But with comments, the conversation continues and invites interaction from others who read the blog. Some of you already know this and have made good use of this site’s comments but for those who are unsure, let me show you some of the cool things in store for the Edminsters Online commenter:
You really know your blog readers have found a home when they start nesting … their comments, that is. With our blog’s new 2009 skin, it is now possible for comments to nest inside one another. So when somebody comments on an article I’ve written saying, “You’re out of your mind! Where did you get ridiculous ideas like these.” I can tuck my polite and persuasive response just under theirs with a little indent. This built in nesting makes it easy to follow conversations that are birthed from thought provoking articles. Ask any bird: nests are a very good place for birthing.
Nesting instinct
So how do you make a comment? Just scroll down the bottom of an article and look for the comment box. You’ll need to give a name – yours would be preferable – and an email (just for verification – it won’t be posted) and then you can write your comment in the text box provided. Click send and its off and running. Wait! I made a mistake! Don’t worry, you’ll have 10 minutes or so to edit your comment in case it needs some trimming or beautifying. Click send and it’s off and running. Wait! Did you see that little box below the form?
Leave a comment!
Now this is cool for those of you who still prefer to use email … if you check the email notifications box on an article for which you’d like to follow comments, you’ll get a notification every time some one posts a new response. Kinda nifty, huh? That way you can keep up on a really hot conversation … there are sooooo many of those here 
and when you get sick of it you can just as easily cancel your notifications.
As an added bonus, if you act now … what I mean is, if you are registered on the blog and have uploaded a picture for yourself, or alternatively if you use a personal icon service like gravatar.com, your picture will show up automatically with your comment. Now what more could you ask for in a comment nest?
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