Although I wouldn’t consider any of these revolutionary (we did almost all of the at the Journal-World, they’re definitely good tips for any newspapers adding comments to their sites. Visit site »
My buddy Mel Kirk interviews online community guru Tara Hunt — who, for the record, I finally got to hang out with a few months ago in San Francisco and found to be downright awesome. Visit site »
Flickr’s George Oates has a great piece on A List Apart about building community around your site — something that Flickr has done as well as anyone. Visit site »
XKCD has posted a map representing online communites. This is one of the most entertaining drawing I’ve seen in ages. Be sure to look long and hard — the real humor is in the minute details. Great, great stuff. Visit site »
A very nice (if long) report on the state of communities in the context of online news. Includes mentions of LJWorld.com, Lawrence.com, the Django framework, and our Ellington CMS. Visit site »
Hicksy on the Flickr “NIPSA,” a penalty on your account for posting too much non-photographic content. I can see both sides of this one. Visit site »
“We men need to inflict our comments on the web with wanton disregard for the context, content, and community in which we’re participating. Let’s get some Ajax on this motherfucker, stat!” Hah. Visit site »
