Comments on: LineBuzz – Inline Comments

By: tips

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By: Sue

Sue — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:20:44 +0000

If LineBuzz takes off I can see it as a good way to publicize your blogs. The comments made not only appear in your page’s LineBuzz module but on the LineBuzz blog too.

You can make comments yourself to highlight salient points in your post, which when viewed at LineBuzz may also attract readers to your blog.

Add a social networking feature too it and it would be even more valuable in this regard.

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Fri, 25 May 2007 00:29:28 +0000

[...] linebuzz – inline comments for your blog, that is a visitor can highlight text and leave comments refering to that text in particular. Others can hover over the text and the inline comments will pop up (you can also reply), the inline comments will also be displayed in the sidebar. Need to be registered to leave comments, and a user has a space to keep an archive of all their inline commenting…check out their blog to see it in action. If it’s just a regular comment module you are after see JS-kit and others. [via PB] [...]

By: Jonathan Franzone

Jonathan Franzone — Mon, 21 May 2007 02:08:09 +0000

Seems like an interesting idea, but I’d never use it in my blog. I think it would just be a distraction from the content that I am trying to create for my readers. If you want to view comments then go down and read the comments… it’s not that hard. Furthermore as you pointed out, if your post is highly commented then the whole post could be just one huge dotted mess of underlined popups. You might even crash the browser just moving the mouse over the post LOL. That’s just my two cents.

By: Christian Tietze

Christian Tietze — Fri, 18 May 2007 22:55:46 +0000

I like the inline-comment-stuff which makes paragraphs or other aprts of text available for commenting. I don’t know where I saw that anymore, but the website looked like a Microsoft Office application and wanted to emulate the look and feel, if I remember correctly. It’d be great if I was able to select ideas or parts of texts that belong together and make them commentable. Not an automatic process like “every block element is commentable” but a customizable solution to fit to the content.

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Wed, 16 May 2007 22:00:20 +0000

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By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:32:14 +0000

It’s another one of those “features” which would turn me off a site in a heartbeat. It adds nothing to the user experience and is intrusive.

By: Jen / domestika

Jen / domestika — Tue, 15 May 2007 13:50:34 +0000

Call me a linear thinker, but I’d find those inline comments a tad messy, once you got more than a few of them … and would certainly miss the thread of comments at the end, so much more like a “real” conversation.

Anyway, how hard is it to Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, and pop in a couple of quotation marks, to respond to a particular part of the post?

By: Conscious

Conscious — Tue, 15 May 2007 13:01:59 +0000

I don’t dig it. Just seems like another unnecessary addition that will interfere with the flow of your blog. Too bothersome to bother with. I’m sure though there will be enough folks thrilled with it for it to be successful. I personal wouldn’t mess with it though.

By: A Marques

A Marques — Tue, 15 May 2007 11:12:08 +0000

It’s something that I would NOT install on my blog, at least not yet.
- Distracting – I want my readers to understand what I’m saying without having to go back and reading it again just because they hovered on a comment link;
- Spam – As mentioned above, how does a spam filter works in here?
- Not useful – I can’t see how this can actually be so useful. My posts are usual short enough that, if a user wants to comment on a part of them, he can just quote. Maybe for a long article, but not for small posts.

But anyway, thanks Darren for mentioning it. Maybe it’s something that is worth to keep an eye on, just to see if some other features develop for it.

By: ploop

ploop — Tue, 15 May 2007 10:12:18 +0000

thanks for this tip off Darren – I can see some really useful applications for this on mine, and many other blogs. Like many good ideas it seems so simple as commenting on certain aspects of a post is something I’ve wented to do for a good while

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plooptionary » Blog Archive » Linebuzz - What an app … — Tue, 15 May 2007 10:10:32 +0000

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By: Samir

Samir — Tue, 15 May 2007 09:36:27 +0000

I agree with Roberta about this having the potential to quickly go out-of-hand and get extremely distracting.

But beyond that I wouldn’t rush out to implement this because it encourages a type of user interaction that I don’t particularly appreciate. We’ve all seen enough of the “Oh wow! Cool post!” species of comment [some of us might even be masters of the art :) ], which while not malicious can drastically increase the noise on the page if it goes too far. This kind of direct, in-content, commentary seems to only increase the propensity of some people to make completely unworthy contributions to webpages, especially when what might be needed is an actual discussion.

I think Flickr’s similar photo comment system is a prime example of how this can disintegrate into background noise. In all my time browsing Flickr, I might have come across 1 or 2 valid on-picture comments which actually made a point. The rest have either been aimless gushing, baseless criticisms, or “oh wow! booobies!” … and all that in 9.6 words or less.

The need to collate all your thoughts about a particular post and then organise them into a singular comment at the end requires a certain amount of minimal mental planning which I think is a useful buffer, a sort of firewall against mental spam.

So what it comes down to I think is what kind of site you want to run. I’m sure if you’re into being Web2.0-Cool™ above all else, or you run one of those joke/gag/funny-video sites which thrives of a lot of transient viewers, this might be a god-send for your user experience. But if you would actually like a lot of cumbersome coherent thought from your readership, I would have my doubts about this inline commenting business.

By: Karlo Licudine

Karlo Licudine — Tue, 15 May 2007 09:32:01 +0000

This really seem to have a very nifty feature. It would be really nice if they can be able to have a partnership with the top blog platforms around so that they could improve it even further.

By: ricardo

ricardo — Tue, 15 May 2007 07:14:11 +0000

Nice… looks pretty ok, but I just started with my Threaded Comments tool. I dont think I want to turn my back on them :).

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Tue, 15 May 2007 07:09:00 +0000

Intellitxt for comments! Woo!

I like the principle, but I agree that it could get messy, particularly with other links and acronyms in the body of the article.

Most people who comment can simply reference a piece of the article by quoting it or rephrasing it in their reply. I think threaded comments are more useful than inline ones.

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Tue, 15 May 2007 06:59:02 +0000

I don’t see the inline comments. Is this what Jakob Nielsen’s on about “glossy but useless” Web 2.0 hype? See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6653119.stm

Isn’t the W3C Annotations project meant to do this already? If LineBuzz is a script interface to http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/ that might be worth the hype.

By: EngLee

EngLee — Tue, 15 May 2007 06:14:04 +0000

Hover over and see the comment can be a good improvement.

To comment on its current look, I don’t like the part where my screen was slightly scrolled/moved, when I click on the link.

By: Duplicate Content Checker

Duplicate Content Checker — Tue, 15 May 2007 05:55:30 +0000

I think if you get a surge of comments on a regular basis, your posts will ultimately have all sorts of dotted lines in every phrase or so; it can be a little distracting. However, I do see some potential in it — like adding footnotes or something. If the dotted lines were replaced by something less obvious, I don’t know, maybe it could work.