Idaho Blogs — 2/3/09

Building and maintaining a high quality comment community is a difficult thing to do, and I’m not sure the sysop blogger has as much control over it as he thinks he does.  Finding a good one is also difficult.  I look at LGF, MM and Hot air, Whittle’s community, and of course many of the forums and smaller blogs, and all I can say is ‘one man’s comment is another man’s slur’.   There are some places I rarely go anymore and when I do I don’t look at the comments… they’ve gotten so out of control and overrun by trolls it just isn’t worth it.  It’s a big internet and there are plenty of places yet to see.  No sense spending time watching food fights and pissing matches/ BillH , Free In Idaho! More here .

• The nonprofit newspaper: A business model for dullness /Kevin Richert
• Can’t see the forest for the trees /Political Game
• Tuesday Morning Coffee /Unequivocal Notion
• How to make yourself unpopular now /Clayton Cramer
• What is wrong with some people?/ 2C Etc.

Question: How important is the Huckleberries Online comments feature to you?

• Silent Sarah /Adam’s Blog
• Obama urged to appoint salmon czar /Rocky Barker
• Sims & housing /Randy Stapilus
• Idaho: An international id-i-ot?/ Dennis Mansfield
• The Nacirema revisited /Morialekafa
• Are rigid liberal Demos blocking Idaho’s fiscal progress?/ Michael Strickland
• Innovative ideas for education reform /Idaho Values Alliance
• When economics meets art /Idaho Conservation League