After comments

Here's my talk to Jeff Pulver's 140Conf today on comments and interactivity, in which I argue that comments are an insult because they come only after media think they're done creating a product, which they then allow the public to react to.

I defended comments on news sites for many years. But I think we have to move past them to true collaboration, which is more respectful and productive. There is no easy solution for civility, not identity or rating systems.

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