I have been thinking about blog comments recently. In the last week Russel removed comments from his blog and Dave added them back.

I do have comments on my blog but I have never particulary liked the idea, while thinking about it I remembered a discussion we had in Vienna with Matt and Mark Bernstein and a post that Matt wrote a few days later. I asked Matt to make a shorter version, so here it is, "Mower's law on comments", it's the ultimate metaphore:

It's relatively easy to come to my house in the dead of night and daub "Matt Mower is a total asshole" in bright yellow paint on my (or my neighbours) walls for everyone to see, but you must truly believe it to paint "Matt Mower is a total asshole" on YOUR own walls!

Tags: Comments, Mower's Law

This morning I found the new Gtalk-Gmail fusion features in my Gmail window. I'm not sure if this is very useful feature in the Gmail window, I don't spend much time here. But an IM client working well in any browser is an interesting toy, it could be nice to include it in weblogs to have quick live conversations with readers.

Google should let anyone include an IM window in any site just like they are doing with ads now.

Tags: Google, Gtalk, Gmail