DISQUS

When referring to comments, it is important to consider the entire context of the message. I made an observation based on the fact people are generally more cocooned today than ever before, how as cocooning increases so do devices and technology for electronic communities. These technologies can become a type of electronic condom, a filter though which we experience some of our relationships, activities, and a portion of our lives. They are also a safety switch for some, because we can pull the plug on these experiences at any time.

Not to take anything away from your excellent post, but it's interesting me that the more we succeed in cocooning ourselves, making ourselves personally inaccessible through scanning our phone calls, spamming our emails, and generally putting distance between ourselves and others, the more we latch onto "social" technologies like blogging, chat, and other types of online "community".

It's sort of like living life through a condom.

Sure, we get to choose our friends and the people we come in contact with. And we can erase them from our lives as easily as hitting the right button on a website or email reader. But I wonder what would happen if we started reaching out more to that old low-tech community of people who live around us?

About the Top Commenter plugin, I set it to count comments over the last 30 days so it doesn't renew the first of every month. Comments fall off after 30 days, creating a rolling effect. Not sure if you can do that with the widget version, but in the regular version you set the "reset" option to 30 (through the plugin editor).

About the Top Commenter plugin, I set it to count comments over the last 30 days so it doesn't renew the first of every month. Comments fall off after 30 days, creating a rolling effect. Not sure if you can do that with the widget version, but in the regular version you set the "reset" option to 30 (through the plugin editor).

I checked it out this morning and it definitely looks interesting. I think it's important not to spread yourself too thin with too many marketing venues; I tend to end up with a bunch of half-baked projects and ideas when I do. But it's worth considering this site as a potential place to focus promotional efforts. The backlinks would be great, even without any PR attached.

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I've had a Yahoo account for something like ten years . . . long enough my email address is my real name. I enjoy using their email service, their MyBlogLog service, and even belong to a couple Yahoo groups. I built my first website on their Geocities platform.

I really dread the idea of Microsoft getting their claws in Yahoo and if they do, I wonder if all the things I love (including the name) will be swallowed into Microsoft's character-free universe.

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It's true the series influenced later teen shows like "Buffy", but IMHO one of its greatest contributions is the introduction of Danes herself.