For You

Today, I have a sad blogging tale for you, especially if you use the commenting widget, Disqus, on your blog. I started writing a quick blurb about this for my Tuesday Entertainment blogging post, but it became rather long, and considering the popularity of Disqus, I thought it might be worthy of it's own post. A couple years ago, I jumped on the Disqus blog commenting bandwagon. A lot of bloggers (especially those on Blogger) were using it because Disqus makes it easier to respond to comments on your blog. You respond once, and the person who commented gets an automatic email with your response in case they want to continue the conversation. Since responding to every comment via email was becoming more popular, this streamlined the process. I was a little skeptical, because I think Disqus also makes it harder to visit the blogs of commenters (unless they add their blog to their Disqus profile, there is no way of finding their blog). But the ease of responding and the clean look