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Shutting Down Blog Comments

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I was recording a podcast today with Gini Dietrich of Spin Sucks (it will be published in the coming weeks) and we were talking about the many bloggers and news sites that have shut down their blog comments ( Copyblogger being the one that has most recently decided to do so: Why We''re Removing Comments on Copyblogger ). publishing.

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One Last Comment About Blog Comments (Hint: They're Back)

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With that, we have decided on Disqus to moderate the blog comments. Everything that I write is then open for you to comment on, for you to create more content on, for you to interact with others on. To me, what makes any piece of content "social" is how shareable and findable it is. publishing. That''s it.

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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Opinion , Social Media > Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators by Tamar Weinberg on September 23, 2009 Share This is a guest post from Josh Schnell, founder of Macgasm.net and web developer.

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Are Blog Comments Dead? | Justin Levy

Justin Levy

These are tracked through a variety of tools and even popular commenting system Disqus scours social networks to find blog posts being shared and displays those as “interactions&#. It can cause bloggers to start rethinking their content strategy and possibly even considering whether or not they should continue blogging.

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7 Ways to Take the Media World by Storm

Convince & Convert

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Joe Pulizzi’s new book Epic Content Marketing: How to Tell a Different Story, Break through the Clutter and Win More Customers by Marketing Less (McGraw-Hill, 2013). Yes, digital, as in desktop publishing, is becoming a legacy system. Repurpose All Your Content.

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HOW TO: Make Facebook Your Company Newsroom – My Mashable article

Josh S Peters

This is just a quick FYI to let you know I have another article published on Mashable today. HOW TO: Make Facebook Your Company Newsroom. Since my last Mashable article was 30+ Apps for Doing Business on Facebook it seems like I have a theme going on. Please check it out and let me know what you think, thanks.

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Consumers pay less, and publishers starting to diversify?

The Way of the Web

→ Consumers pay less, and publishers starting to diversify? April 19th, 2010 · View Comments The changing nature of publishing, and particularly digital publishing, has been highlighted in a couple of stories today on the amount that consumers are willing to spend on media online, and the moves by U.S.