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By: A Tiny City » Night in Dubai

A Tiny City » Night in Dubai — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:36:35 +0000

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By: A Tiny City » It’s a Blue Christmas at ATC

A Tiny City » It’s a Blue Christmas at ATC — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:29:21 +0000

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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:58:22 +0000

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By: velda

velda — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:20:23 +0000

@Ben — So people award credibility based on who agrees with them most. And politicians aren’t necessarily REALLY paying attention to internet comments. So what? That’s nothing new.

What _is_ new? For starters, those of us who aren’t the best debaters out there can at least easily track our own comments and their replies, regardless of which intense debate enabled site they were made on.

But the great news is that the best debates (and the best debaters) along with the ideas they generate are no longer lost in the abyss. They’re up front where we the people can find them and maybe even do something about the great suggestions being made.

Kudos, Matt.

By: Ben Tremblay

Ben Tremblay — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:02:08 +0000

I’ve been calling for this sort of engagement since before WWW so don’t think me a trasher, but this deployment shows how we’re basically using real pretty versions of 1997 tech (see HyperNews): 53 pages of comments … 3.7K the last time I checked.

Sort by credibility and comment #4 reads something like, “Great comment … you’re right”.
Brave New World? Hardly.
Change? Ohhhh c’mon.

What this shows is that innovation is only allowed when someone A-list is positioned as champion … so it lags, and lags, and lags.

Same old same-old. With bells and whistles.
Spin2.0 … that’s not change.

The four Is of conventional engagement: Invite, Involve, Inform, and Ignore.

By: Lorenzo Raffio

Lorenzo Raffio — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:25:55 +0000

I really love IntenseDebate, I’e reviewed it on my blog…
Why have you decided to leave it as a plugin?

Matt: Thanks for all the you’re doing!!!!

By: Bill Gray

Bill Gray — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:06:28 +0000

Congratulations on the good press for Intense Debate!

I am a little surprised this blog is not using Intense Debate. Can you share with us some of your reasons for not converting to Intense Debate right away?

By: Pablo DiCiacco

Pablo DiCiacco — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:07:32 +0000

To grasp the brilliance of this you really need to visit the developer site: http://intensedebate.com/
Especially note all the backend features.
Brilliant addition for WordPress.

By: 3w1nk

3w1nk — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:21:48 +0000

I am eagerly waiting for the stable version of 2.7, and i hope it will be soon..

By: Mio

Mio — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:50:02 +0000

Matt, I can understand – new president and so on, but ID support team works slowly!

By: Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:28:30 +0000

Now you just have to convince Nate Silver, of fivethirtyeight, to switch to WordPress and VIP hosting. I need a reliable site when I start obsessing over U.S. politics again in 2012.

By: ht

ht — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:08:08 +0000

Got it. Will not spend time on that one, I love open source.

By: ht

ht — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:46:00 +0000

Well done guys.

BTW, what is EE?

By: photoTristan

photoTristan — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:04:40 +0000

Never mind! I see it now.

I see that your comments are slightly indented and therefore threaded. But I was thinking of a true threaded comment system whereby visitors could also reply to comments via a ‘reply’ button.

By: photoTristan

photoTristan — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:53:06 +0000

I’m not seeing threaded comments here though.

“2.7 has a lot of additional comment functionality, like the reply-from-admin and threaded comments I’m using now”

By: Patrick D.

Patrick D. — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:15:12 +0000

I keep going back and forth on using Intense Debate. The new syncing option and the President-Elect seem to be swaying me toward it.

By: David G. Johnson

David G. Johnson — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:10:01 +0000

Congrats on the “coup” in government!

It’s a shame they chose EE over WP… sounds like they need some more “change”!

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:25:04 +0000

No that’s not what I said at all, maybe re-read the entry?

By: Bryan Harley

Bryan Harley — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:39:26 +0000

I also have to say I find it very interesting that they’re using a comments system. To me it seems like these types of intense, complex discussions would be better suited for a forum system.

The “comments” trend is just an interesting one, in of itself. As “forums” were seen as the future, but now due to the popularity of blogging, “comments” are seen as the future.

By: Bryan Harley

Bryan Harley — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:33:14 +0000

Very cool! Too bad they use EE though, we gotta get ‘em to switch to WordPress.

Matt, any chance we’ll see more CMS-like functions in WordPress core?

By: Banago

Banago — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:52:56 +0000

Great news!

I am eagerly waiting for the stable version of 2.7. I have been using 2.7 since beta 2, but I have been having little troubles – it is still beta, I know.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:32:54 +0000

Must hurt that they’re using EE huh??

Well done on them using intense debate though, must be a nice feeling knowing that you’re being part of the changing political climate

By: Nikhil Gupta

Nikhil Gupta — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:25:17 +0000

Matt, but IntenseDebate is a beautiful piece of code. And, after acquisition by Automattic, many of us were assuming it to be a really nice addition to WordPress 2.7 anyhow, I recently wrote an entry on my blog, about the beauty of this plugin. IntenseDebate comments enhance and encourage conversation!

By: Shawn

Shawn — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:56:55 +0000

So what you’re saying is that President-elect Barack Obama is running WordPress on http://www.Change.gov ?

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:06:30 +0000

Very interesting… The Barack is going opensource. I hope this says something about his policies.