18-minute podcast about why the new comments are so good. Two main reasons. 1. It's inverted from a spam point of view. You comment in your Twitter flow. I get to read your comment because I follow the RSS feed and the #scriptingnews tag. If I think what you said is valuable I can like it, or RT it or follow you. So there's a way for me to amplify your flow, but it's my choice. 2. Twitter's new 280-char limit works really well, as noted earlier. It's enough to express an idea, but not enough to write a blog post. Perfect. #iTunes has been acting like an asshole today, refusing to copy files onto my iPhone. Had an idea. Can Dropbox on my iPhone play MP3s? It can. It's a way to avoid using iTunes to put podcasts on my iPhone. And they end up on all my devices. #
Reminder to myself and others who read this blog. Use the feature here on Scripting News more. It's a way to comment on what's going on here, without using Disqus (which in its latest iterations has become really offensive).#- Twitter, with its 280 character limit is now a good commenting system wrt my Comment Guidelines. Keep it short, provide a link, don't use comments to write blog posts. #
- It's funny, I didn't write much about the comments feature when it came out on 12/16 and subsequent days. I did start a thread on the repo, but there isn't much there. #
- Comments are much-discussed over the years on this blog.#
- Also there's an RSS feed for comments. #