BoingBoing to Bring Its Bloggy Back

Wired's Epicenter blog writes that in a TWiT.tv podcast interview, BoingBoing's Mark Frauenfelder says that BoingBoing is going to be bringing back reader comments.

Now, BoingBoing is currently #2 in the Technorati Top 100 Blogs; they're kind of big deal, since they're so widely-read, even though I think they sometimes get too caught up in their own coolness, dragging out stupid joke memes about long horses or subway map anagrams. Love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it.

Anyway, Frauenfelder says that they'll be reintroducing reader comments; they'll be hiring a full time community manager to try to keep a handle on things (they were forced to take down commenting before, due to trolling and flaming).

Now, as I've said many times before, I think that a blog that doesn't accept comments isn't really a blog -- it's just kind of "bloggy." I've also said that things are a bit different for high-traffic blogs, since they attract spammers, psychos and people who just want to spew in front of a wide audience.

It's a special kind of challenge, so it will be interesting to see what they do.

(Oh, and also via Wired, check this out: Correctly Regarded as Goofs, a quick little movie quizzish game from Lore Sjöberg (creator of The Brunching Shuttlecocks, which is probably worthy of a lifetime Internet achievement award by itself): It gives you an Internet Movie Database-style movie goof, and then you have to try to guess the movie from which it came. Simple, yet effective.)

Thanks -- Joe

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