Episode 7 - A Post-Comment World - a podcast by criticaldistance
from 2011-02-09T20:00
It's time for another episode of the Critical Distance Confab. Before we get into it, a little background information. Right around the last podcast a debate sprung up over Ben's refusal to allow comments on his personal blog, finding them not worth worth the time and effort. This had been his policy since starting his new blog, but after reading his post Rhetorical Questions many wanted to engage with the post and found they couldn't. The discussion/argument moved to twitter, as it often does, and became one about the nature and usefulness of comments.
This episode sees the two sides come head to head to tackle this point in person. (Okay, not quite in person, but you know what I mean.) Do we live in a post comment world or a post-comment world?
A note: the audio sounds strange at certain points (aka every time I try to say something) because of a recording error. All other audio was unaffected and I managed to get most of what I said unwarped and pieced back together. I left an untouched segment of my voice after the closing music to give you a taste of what I fixed.
CAST
Eric Swain: The Game Critique
Ben Abraham: i am Ben Abraham
Ian Miles Cheong: Stillgray
Adrian Forest: Three Parts Theory
SHOW NOTES
Why Daring Fireball is Comment Free
Rock, Paper, Shotgun, And Why We Need To Make Publications Into Homes OR Maybe Just Local Pubs
Opening theme: 'Close' by The Alpha Conspiracy
Closing Theme: 'Wishing Never' by The Alpha Conspiracy
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