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The Effect of RSS on Discussion

What effect does RSS have on the commenting and discussion of blog entries? Take Mr. Foo and Mr. Bar. They are identical in every way, except Mr. Foo visits Gadgetopia.com a couple of times a day, while Mr. Bar just monitors the site via RSS. Who’s more likely to comment on a blog entry? My guess is Mr. Foo.

by Deane   July 25, 2003 6:02 PM   |
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by Deane,   July 25, 2003 6:42 PM  

Dave Winer sent me this:

"<comments> is an optional sub-element of <item>. If present, it is the url of the comments page for the item."

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss#ltcommentsgtSubelementOfLtitemgt

by Joe Kepley,   July 26, 2003 5:54 PM  

Actually, I comment more from RSS than the site. Newsmonster sucks down content that includes the comment link. Manually including would probably help people with other aggregators.

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