Comments on: Yahoo’s Blog Takes Its Blogging Lumps, Like a Real Blog Should

By: Blogging in Internal Communications at Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth)

Blogging in Internal Communications at Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth) — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:37:12 +0000

[...] Yahoo’s Blog Takes Its Blogging Lumps, Like a Real Blog Should [...]

By: Yahoo! TV Blog Fest » Webomatica - Technology and Entertainment Digest

Yahoo! TV Blog Fest » Webomatica - Technology and Entertainment Digest — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:08:25 +0000

[...] in all though, I do commend Yahoo! for having a blog that allows for this discussion and keeping the negative comments [...]

By: John Dowdell

John Dowdell — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:21:07 +0000

“Leaving the comments, both good and bad, is awesome.”

True, and I admire how Sal and Jeremy have been working here.

But that “leaving the bad comments” approach comes from newsgroups and forums that tech companies have hosted for years. Such companies have had to deal with this question already, and weblogs don’t change the basic principles. But such public feedback loops may not work for other groups which haven’t had to ask this question before… different cultural histories.

jd/adobe

By: GregD

GregD — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 18:57:03 +0000

They aren’t always so quick to take their lumps….although leaving the comments, both good and bad, is awesome. That being said, I’ve emailed them on numerous occasions about the slowness of their POS Yahoo music player AND the new Yahoo mail beta which is needlessly slow. Perhaps it’s harder to ignore hundreds of comments on public display where others could be encouraged to say, “You know, I’ve been having problems with that music player too. Or I wish that the new email beta wasn’t so slow..” It seems that people would also be more likely to respond with “me too”