So yesterday I put forward 5 arguments as to why you should turn off your comments and hence today is the counter, why you should have comments on your blog and not let some dumb blog consultant tell you otherwise!

(as with yesterday, please comment – without the irony this time – if you’ve got any other reasons for keeping comments turned on or if you reckon I’m spouting here…)

Argument number 1: Come over to mine – keeping, engaging and satisfying your readership

[Update: another technique added )]

Here’s a (somewhat surprising) Blogavvy client, the writer Mat Larkin.

Mat’s currently completing his first novel ‘The Last Monk’ and if you’re into reality TV, this is probably not one for you. However, if you’re interested in reality TV gone wrong with a touch of graveyard, megalomania and some other strange strange stuff then you’ll certainly be into this:

“All Banger wanted was another quiet evening at home.

But when his best friend Completely Trevor returns home ten years after going out for fish and chips (the police listed him as either

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This is the first in a two-partner (here’s part II) inspired by the discussion Mark Bernstein provoked at Blogtalk Downunder about the value (or not) of comments. This installment puts forward the arguments for getting rid of comments entirely on your posts, so come along and add your own or tell me if I’m wrong in the (OK I get the irony) comments ;o).

(Tomorrow’s is going to be about why you should not just keep your comments but treasure and tend to them as you would a zen garden)

Argument number 1: The more comments you have the…

When I first started blogging, the thing that I really craved more than anything was the facility to simply set up a blogging system for my institution. Something which could give all the staff and students blogs and which I could install without having to first complete a masters in computer science.

Well now, a few years later, there are a heap of options available and which a clued up education developer or, perhaps, BlogSavvy can give all your teachers and students instant, branded, controlled and secure blogs.

Here are some of the options:

Darren quotes secrets of the A List and offers his own take on what works including highly targeted content and more posts equaling more entry points.

This is something that I’ve enjoyed watching Chris Abraham employ for a fair bit now on the advice of Doc Searls and with which I’d agree… if you want a lot of readers, lots of links and a place in the pantheon then you’d sure as heck best be peddling frequent bite size content with a good line in cyclical stories / issues, some political drama if possible and a fair bit of ‘not…