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Monday, October 22, 2007

Say It Loud And Proud

For the regular visitors of this blog, I am especially happy to describe to you the new comments function I've been fortunate to install from Intense Debate. As that name implies, this cutting edge blogging tool will facilitate more valuable commenting based not only on my posts but between yourselves as well. The point is to elevate online discussions to a whole new level.

In order to better organize the discussion, Intense Debate allows for comments to be threaded off of any given comment, not just the main post. You can provide more focused comments this way.

If you choose, you can create an identity that spans across all blogs powered by Intense Debate.

Why bother with an identity? Along with your identity is a reputation value, based on the
quantity and quality of the comments you make - quality as voted upon by other readers.
This voting serves to move the best comments to the top.

Plus your identity goes with you to all Intense Debated-formatted blogs, making it easy to track users across the blogosphere by providing email and rss notifications. In short, Intense Debate has completely transformed the commenting experience. I am proud to be one of their early adopters. (I am not involved in any way with them financially for you skeptics out there.)

Heard of Boulder's TechStars? They're one of them. Read more about them here.

Now that this capability is part of my blog, next comes the election predictions and endorsements. Let me know what you think.

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