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                                             June 27, 2007

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               WIDER_FIGHT
                                               The comments following
                                               this piece are a good
                                               argument against the
                                               blog format.

                                               Instead of the reader
                                               leaving with the
                                               words of the author
                                               echoing through their
                                               head, the reader
                                               leaves after skimming
                                               through this weird,
                                               verbose scatter of
                                               different voices of
                                               unknown province.

                                                  (1) Even if you're
                                                  going to provide
                               It's no longer     a "comments"
                               obvious to me      feature, maybe the
                               that authors       reader should have
                               *should* provide   to click to see
                               a comment log.     them.
                               Don't you have
                               some place of      (2) The author
           URLs that have      your own to        of the piece should
           a serial id         write your         have the capability
           number are a        reactions?         of "approving"
           very poor           Don't people       comments.  Good
           design.  Better     know how to        ones should be
           to use an           search for         easier to find.
           "html file name"    sites linking
           that looks like     to this one?
           the title of
           the piece,          (It would
           even if it's        be very easy
           a database          to give
           query in the        people links
           back-end.           to search
                               engines to
                               find pages
                               that link to
                               the present
                               page.)

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