11 Jan
Matt Gemmell recently kicked the discussion around blog comments back to life, first by disabling comments on his own site and then by posting a short followup piece. He has now compiled a comprehensive set of the responses to his initial post. The cloud of discussion around this issue has generated a broad range of points of view that are worth the time to read.
I discarded comments here on A Lazy Sequence back in 2009 and have no regrets. I have found that Twitter, Hacker News, and Reddit provide much better forums for discussing articles I have posted than I could have provided here.
21 Aug
Merlin Mann lists 9 features he thinks make for a good blog. Via Jason Kottke
18 Feb
One of the author's of the Atom Publishing Protocol examines the lack of adoption of APP. Via Matt who has written an AtomPub lib for Clojure.
27 Feb
Nathan makes some good observations about the social effects of not having blog comments.
24 Feb
Matt responds to my better blog post, and considers his audience and the purpose of his blog.
23 Jan
I've added a recipe for implementing a basic MetaWeblog server endpoint in Clojure to the necessary-evil github wiki. It's bare bones and uses a dummy store that does the bare minimum. Because so much of the detail of MetaWeblog is dependant on the backend and model you use, it's not much more than the public interface.