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Reasons why your site doesn’t need comments

   (2012.01.07)

Xtra threatens to launch a new daily-news site. What odds do you give they’ll do everything wrong?

   (2011.12.05)

Of course gay blogs don’t make money. Their owners don’t know their own industries, have bad taste, and suicidally insist on doing what is known not to work. Journos covering the topic are just as baffled

   (2011.09.11)

Your online commenting system, like every online commenting system, induces people to cause harm to others. There’s only one way to solve the problem, and you don’t have the balls to do it.

Also: When my dog died, I cried

   (2011.07.10)

Tyler Brûlé: “I don’t really care what other viewers think. I just want to hear what the correspondent on the ground has to say”

   (2011.03.10)

At some point, you’re going to have to snap out of your denial. Comments are a proven failure on news sites and are a minefield of personal harm everywhere

   (2011.03.08)

Because a MetaMakers forum wasn’t just ignored but ridiculed

   (2010.12.14)

Ask Ben Hammersley: Chasing “the conversation” is “actually almost a cultural crime”

   (2010.07.19)

What I told John Stackhouse of the Globe and Mail. In short: Why did you ever believe Mathew Ingram on the topic of comments? (Now with update after off-topic caterwauling from Carl Wilson)

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