I went ahead and set it up. It's pretty cute! I've been joining networks and trying to make connections, but you can only request 5 connections at a time. I don't understand the point system; however, it seems like the points add up pretty fast.

• 14 weeks ago

I've been joining so many social networking types of things lately that I think I'm forgetting to use them all. I'm going to have to think about Scoutle ... am curious how it works for everyone.

• 14 weeks ago

Intense Debates, to my surprise, was very easy to install. It's a nice, clean system. Hope you're enjoying using it on Texas Startup.

• 14 weeks ago

For some reason, the links are not working on this blog -- I keep getting 404 errors. Your debate site sounds interesting.

• 14 weeks ago

I have also been using Intense Debate and am quite pleased with it. It is easy to install; the threading is great; the widgets are easy to use. I saw somewhere that Intense Debate can be used on HTML pages, which is what I think I will try next.

I would love to see a directory somewhere with all the "Intense Debate" enabled blogs and sites so we can get more comments. I think some of my blog visitors think they have to sign up for something in order to comment, which may be stifling some commenting activity. Some people comment only for the backlinks, and since Intense Debate is a javascript plugin, people might not be commenting because they're not getting the links.

• 14 weeks ago