Registering Before Posting Blog Comments
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This is delayed as well because I’m catching up on my podcasts but I have to call out Jon Furrier at Podtech.net and his 3/30/06 InfoTalk podcast w/ David Hornik. The reason I’m irked is that Jon recounts, rightly so, a frustrating incident of having to log in to a blog’s Blogger system in order to post a comment. Scan to minute 5:30 of 15:52 of the mp3.

Jon said that it was a great blog with an interesting post so he decided to write up a good comment, so he typed up the 25 words or so because it would be posted to a public blog, and then learned that he needed to login to post the comment. I agree Jon, having to login to a public blog to comment is a pain. As you said, “it just killed the whole thing, I just didn’t comment.”

Well guess what Jon, I had this same terrible expereience on your Podtech website, forced to login in to your Wordpress blog system to post a comment on the great first episode of the Marketing Voice podcast.

I had the exact same experience as you describe; a great podcast that I wanted to give a quick comment/thank you on and I had to battle with your Wordpress system. (It didn’t say that cookies needed to be enabled-- should I have assumed that? Yes, maybe, but I had already denied your cookies when Firefox first loaded the site)

I, however, decided to slog through the registration process because I really wanted to say how much I enjoyed the podcast. So I received the login info via my email, went back to your site in IE so that the cookies would work (I’m not going back through my Firefox cookie list to remove your site because who knows which domain Wordpress is using), and finally posted the comment.

I don't understand your inconsistency on the issue of registering before posting comments on blogs. If you assert on the 3/30 podcast that logging in to post comments is an annoying and counter-productive part of of the blogging/New Media world, then please address this with you’re the Podtech.net. websites

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