The year 2007 heralded the 10-year anniversary of the first blog. Since then, blogs have grown to number over 100 million. Although the first blog was just a collection of Web links, blog postings now ...

BackType, a Y Combinator startup that launched in August, is a sort of “Twitter for comments” that aggregates comments from millions of blogs into a single, searchable, parsable stream. Today they ...

Blog comments are like the graffiti of the untamed digital continent. Some are helpful, like the spray paint on the fence that says “beware of dog.” Others are very impressive, like a beautiful mural.

For most marketers, the goals of content marketing are relatively simple. In planning and writing your business blog, you look to improve web traffic by focusing on SEO, establish thought leadership ...

As business owners, we know that our content is the best way to convince first-time visitors to become subscribers. People enjoy reading content that resonates with their interests, goals and pain ...

I am a strong believer in freedom of speech. But what about a (fortunately rare) complete anonymous comment to one of my blog pieces, “How can you write such stupid shit?” The first time something ...

What if scholarly books were peer reviewed by anonymous blog comments rather than by traditional, selected peer reviewers? That’s the question being posed by an unusual experiment that begins today.