social web

SezWho - a quick review of privacy

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

SezWho is similar to Disqus. They both manage your commentary content and add a certain level of community. SezWho allows gravatars, and let’s you rate the person commenting - creating the ability for someone to say, be a popular commenter and give them a certain “ribbon” if you will, of credibility (or at least likability).
Personally, I’m [...]

Dropping Disqus

Monday, April 28th, 2008

I’ve broken up with Disqus.
I like what they’re doing - the whole “one-stop shopping for commenting.” It integrated well. It was pretty neat. Lots of sites adopt it.
But I don’t like branding my site with your name. I don’t like being able to not manage my stuff locally. I don’t like you having a log [...]