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Hmmm… I wonder who that fellow blogger is. He sounds very wise.

I'm in the Phoenix area and very interested in this. Can you contact me at the e-mail address I provided on this comment with your rates?

Happy belated blogoversary! The blogosphere is a better place with you in it.

(Sorry this is late, but I wasn't able to check blogs all that well while out of town.)

I'll second this request in case any Yahoos are reading this.

Excellent communication! More business could take a lesson from you.

Sorry... I didn't mean on Twitter. I meant on the Internet.

Hmmm... you know how many millions of users that would kick off? As much as we'd all like to think that everyone should be tech savvy like us, they aren't. They don't have the time and/or desire to be. They aren't into computers and the Internet that much, so when they do use it, they want something really easy.

Think I'm exaggerating? i can't even begin to tell you how many different tweets I've seen that say "I forgot to use the @ on that last tweet. Sorry."

I didn't say that you said I couldn't enjoy it. All I was saying is that there are those of us that do.

Secondly, I shouldn't have to "sell" Twitter or Plurk or any other service to my friends. They should be able to go to the site and figure it out on their own.

As for Twhirl, I've preached about it until I'm blue in the face. Most of my friends though won't download it for some reason. Maybe they are nervous about first having to download Adobe AIR before Twhirl. I honestly don't know what their hold-up is, but according to an article I saw on ReadWriteWeb last month, Twhirl accounts for less that 7% of the "tweets" on Twitter. The overwhelming majority of Twitter users still use the web site for whatever reason.

People process information differently. Some people don't like the command-type structure of Twitter. Others don't like the AJAX-visual style of Plurk. Fine. To each their own. They should use whatever they like best.

As for "Twitter's many outages have cause users to seek alternatives...while Twitter is down", again I disagree. I use Twitter, but I've been so sick of its unreliability, I've been seeking out a permanent alternative even when Twitter is online. I've heard a lot of people voice similar sentiments. They may not end up at Plurk, but they are looking for something else.

I don't entirely agree. I have a lot of friends who I have tried to get to join Twitter who simply didn't get it. They didn't understand the different syntax's like @reply and direct messages. They gave up on it.

Plurk on the other hard is point and click. I've already had some friends join me on Plurk that wouldn't on Twitter. Why? The visual metaphor was easier for them to follow.

Keep in mind that Plurk has just barely launched. I'm seeing changes and improvements to it on a daily basis. Once they release an API (or possibly even before that), third party development will help Plurk catch on the same way Twitter has.

Twitter was there first and deserves credit for that, but Twitter has almost de-evolved recently. When is the last time you saw a new feature being added to Twitter? Don't tell me they don't need any. There's lots of areas for improvement (aside from their outages).

Will Plurk be the answer? I think that all depends on whether it's adopted into third party apps such as Twhirl, etc. People seem to love or hate the Plurk interface, so Plurk needs to offer people an alternative to it via outside developer apps.

I think people are being especially hard on Plurk because well, they feel that their beloved Twitter could be threatened. No Twitter user wants to see the community they've established disappear. Twitter's many outages have left people looking for an alternative though. For awhile people were flocking to friendfeed, and it came under the same harsh criticism as Plurk is now. I doubt Twitter is going to fall second to Plurk anytime soon, but you have to admit that Twitter is shooting themselves in the foot.

All I can suggest is that if Plurk is not for you, fine- so be it. There's no reason the rest of us shouldn't enjoy it though.

Perhaps I didn't word my question correctly:

I don't want to remove inappropriate video comments after the fact. I
might not see them for several hours after they get posted.

Can I have video comments require approval (moderation) by me, but
regular comments (non-video) not require moderation?

--
Scott

www.scott-o-rama.com

How does content control work on this? That is, what if someone records an inappropriate video comment? Are all video comments moderated before going live (even for registered users)?

I like the idea, but I have concerns about the execution of it.

I'm assuming you mean the ability to import the current comments on your WordPress blog into Disqus.

I was just about going to write a post myself asking if there are any updates or a planned release of this feature, but you beat me to it.

Daniel, anyone? Any updates?

It does. Thank you!

Do you have some sort of secret beta? I'm on WordPress 2.5 and have several thousands of comments that need importing if you need someone to test it.

Another thing I was about to suggest. It's hard to call it a forum without search, but I'm glad to hear you're working on it already.

Hear! Hear!

I would love to see you set up something with FriendFeed like you did with Plaxo.

Yes, but does it work for those commenters who don't register with Disqus?

For example, WordPress 2.5 will match the Gravatar as long as the person enters their e-mail that matches a Gravatar registration. I have a feeling that many of the commenters on my site won't register with Disqus... at least not initially. Will their Gravatar show up by merely putting in their e-mail address when leaving a comment?

Also, has the option to allow blog owners the ability to require an e-mail address for someone to leave a comment been implemented yet? I don't see the option, but I believe you said it was something you were working on.

Oh god... have you tried Vista? Give me my Mac ANYDAY over the P.O.S. OS!

As much of a Mac devotee that I am, I'm willing to admit that Leopard was kind of buggy at first. Almost all of that was fixed (for me at least... knock on wood) when the 10.5.2 update came out.

I guess another reason I like my Mac is that when something does go wrong, it seems easier to fix. I don't know how many times I used to resort to doing a clean install of Windows XP to fix problems. Maybe it's because Apple controls both the hardware and OS.

Just my 2¢.

Thanks Jason! That worked great. I appreciate your fast response.

Now how much longer until WordPress comment importing and Gravatar support? ;-)

That doesn't work if the post has no comments on it yet. They don't show up on the dashboard. I don't want to have to go through and find all my "comments closed" posts and put a comment on them just to be able to turn comments off through Disqus.

What a great photo!

As a blog moderator, I would prefer to have a time limit for editing, say like 15 minutes. After that, I would want the comment to be frozen. Not all blog readers use the "reply" button when leaving a comment in reply, so only locking it when a reply happens isn't always a solution.

As soon as Gravatar support and WP comment importing are added, I'm there.

P.S. I don't see Edwards' concession as a sign that his heart wasn't into it. Keep in mind they do tons of polling and political models. It must have become obvious that no matter what he did, he wasn't going to win. It's probably better that he leave the race before Super Tuesday than afterwards. That way people can really choose between the final two candidates. Not only that, but why continue to burn through money when it's not going to be enough?

Personally I see Edwards dropping out as a smart move and a courtesy to us, his supporters.

Hmmm... I went the opposite way. I'm supporting Clinton.

I'll explain it tomorrow in a blog post.