Comments on: Why I Blog About Tech (Not About Medicine) And Why Comments Aren’t Always That Important.

By: Is Your Blog a Conversation Blog or Answer Blog? : The Blog Herald

Is Your Blog a Conversation Blog or Answer Blog? : The Blog Herald — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:05:15 +0000

[...] Hung spoke about this type of blog in Why I Blog About Tech (Not About Medicine) And Why Comments Aren’t Always That Important, which I also covered in Blog Comments: On or Off and Why. The blog in discussion was from a cancer [...]

By: Blog Comments: On or Off and Why « Lorelle on WordPress

Blog Comments: On or Off and Why « Lorelle on WordPress — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:25:34 +0000

[...] Blog Comments: On or Off and Why Why I Blog About Tech (Not About Medicine) And Why Comments Aren’t Always That Important by Tony Hung on Deep Jive Interests is an interesting perspective on why we blog, and if the interactive nature of blogging important to our reason for blogging. Josh’s blog doesn’t have comments. [...]

By: engtech

engtech — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:39:07 +0000

Another good example of blogs that don’t need comments is PostSecret.

Comments may get posted if you email Frank, but the site doesn’t really need them.

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:18:59 +0000

Great post, Tony — thanks for writing about your patient and his blog. And I would agree that a blog like that can have a far greater purpose just sending a message rather than becoming a host for the usual comment flame-war.

By: David Airey

David Airey — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:24:53 +0000

Your words remind me of a quote I once heard:

“You can’t learn anything by talking.”

By: Pete Abilla

Pete Abilla — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:47:44 +0000

Dr. Hung,

This was a thoughtful post. I, too, retract how I once felt about blogs without comments. Yes, they are conversations, but some blogs warrant the reader to just sit, ponder, read, and listen — almost in reverence.

I’d argue, however, that most blogs don’t merit that reverence. Godin’s material certainly doesn’t, yet he doesn’t allow comments; similarly with other blogs. But, some blogs, as with your patient’s blog — blogs of that kind merit some reverence and empathy, without comments.