I was listening to the Net@Night podcast that Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur put on and they talked about a new web 2.0 (saying that is almost a cliche now) web service that expands your dull blog comments into a new community called Disqus. It is just about the neatest thing I've seen when it comes to comment + community integration.


After listening to the show I went to go check it out and it turns out that it is very easy to integrate into your blog (whatever it may be). If you may not know I use Blogger as my blogging platform not because I don't know how to host my own wordpress blog, but because I'm too cheap to pay monthly hosting for the blog. I have found that integration between Disqus and Blogger was extremely simple. It took about 1 minute to fully set up my blog and integrate my blog comments into their commenting system. I'll now take a moment to explain what disqus will actually do for you.

Disqus allows you to have more interactive comments. It allows you to create a community for your blog as well as connect with other blog communities. You will be able to receive and reply to the discussion from email and cell phone. Commenters will be able to sustain a single identity throughout everyone using disqus, so if enough blogs start using this system then commenting will be a much more enhanced experience for commenters. Disqus uses a system to rate comments up and done just as Digg is using but your overall rating will be effected by the comment that you post and people will be able to see if you have a good karma when posting or if you're just an asshole who posts irrelevant, unincitefull comments. Disqus also has a lot more web 2.0-like AJAX that allows you to post and edit posts on the same page as your comments.

Disqus supports Blogger, Wordpress, Movable Type, Tumblr and Typepad.