On Comments

I've noticed a phenomenon surprising to me on this blog: comments trickle in regularly on older posts. Whether that's from new readers discovering the blog and going back over old posts or regular readers who take a while to think about what they want to say, I thank you, and welcome your comments and questions always. (OK, I don't always have time to answer all the questions...) But it's interesting to me that the active lifetime of a post can be substantially more than a week.

More generally, I would like to figure out how to get more people commenting on the blog. I try to discuss issues here where there can be a variety of opinions and room for tangents, and I think the most interesting part of the blog is in the discussions. I'm genuinely surprised when I go to conferences and people tell me they read the blog, since in my mind the corresponding comment-level seems sparse.

So feel free to comment on what I can do to make the blog more comment-friendly.

Blog Comment Feed

One thing I've been enjoying is that as people seem to discover this blog, they comment on the older posts. I appreciate these comments and I hope the newcomers stick around!

Suresh asked me to enable the comment feed, which would allow people to easily see these newly arrived comments. They appear to be enabled, but while there is a link for the standard blog feed at the bottom of the page is a link for the blog feed, there is no link for the comments. I spent some time playing with the template to no avail. (I'm happy to take advice from anyone who could get the link to show up.)

However, you can just enter the URL directly to your reader. Apparently, the URL you need to get the comments is:

http://mybiasedcoin.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default

and the regular feed for the blog is

http://mybiasedcoin.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default