Comment is free is live

Comment is free

has launched. It looks handsome, but. At its heart, it’s an aggregation of Guardian

columnists, and of course if you’re a newspaper columnist you don’t write with

hyperlinks. So there’s precious little of the link-juice that really drives

the blogosphere: no indication that every link out is rewarded with a new link

in. The likes of Jeff Jarvis (who consults for the Guardian) love to say that

blogs are a conversation; well, these ones aren’t, or aren’t yet, at

any rate.

The site also suffers

from its corporate ownership:

We don’t include full text at the moment because we’d prefer you visit the

site and participate. It’s also very hard to tell who’s reading what if you

offer full text RSS, and on a free site that information is quite important.

In other words, given the choice between serving readers and serving advertisers,

the Guardian chose the latter. Which is understandable, given that the Guardian

is an advertising-funded company. But RSS with advertising is much better than

broken RSS.

Still, one wish has been granted: Marina Hyde now has a homepage

and an RSS

feed!

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