I'm not convinced it's journalists who have to do the aggregation, nor that it's journalism to do so. It just really has to get better. If we can aggregate better it will help save journalism, I am going to (try to) argue.

• 4 weeks ago

Cool, Andrew. How long have you been at this?

• 6 weeks ago

Heh...just nasty!

• 13 weeks ago

Limited HTML = b,i,em,strong,a. You know, I might want to emphasize stuff and I'll certainly want to link to stuff.

Sharing data = a Disqus user can post on this blog with Intense Debate enabled, and I'll still see his avatar and so on. You guys can compete on feature sets, rather than the number of installed users. Otherwise the system with the most users will just win, eventually, even if its features are crappier.

• 24 weeks ago

Thanks Michael. Yes, trackbacks are extremely important to me. That's what blogging is all about! And HTML instead of JavaScript, and the ability to use (limited) HTML in comments.

I'd say, between you and Disqus, the first one to come out supporting trackbacks will be the winner.

I foresee a comment system API call coming up...we can't be having multiple distinct comment communities. You guys will have to share data, I predict.

• 24 weeks ago