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Hey Everybody,

Starting out this New Year in 2009, I thought I’d try a new feature out on the blog here.  It’s called “Intense Debate“.   Part of what makes blogging so rewarding is being a part of the interaction through you, the readers.  That’s what makes the comment section come alive. One of the easiest ways to jump off in the New Year is to do what we call a “roll call” here in blogworld … if you’re reading (via RSS or here on the site), you can leave a quick comment with your name and location.  Please – even if you usually don’t comment – let us here from you!

Back to IntenseDebate:
There’s a whole pile of features with IntenseDebate, but it essentially exists to “enhance and encouarge converations on your blog or website”.  Here’s a quick video recap of some of the features:

IntenseDebate provides many new features meant to inspire discussion and easily follow the conversation.

In order to better organize the discussion, we’ve implemented comment threading which allows users to directly reply to one another.

Users also have an identity that spans across all blogs powered by IntenseDebate. Along with this is a reputation value, based on the quantity and quality of the comments users make, meant to give an overview of a user’s commenting history. Quality is determined by the users through comment voting, which also serves to move the best comments to the top.

With all of our comment systems being interconnected, we make it easy to track users and their activities across all blogs using our system by providing email and rss notifications.

In short, IntenseDebate has completely transformed the commenting experience.

IntenseDebate. Comments Rediscovered.

Now, you can always comment here without signing up for IntenseDebate, but to take full advantage of the features (not just here, but on a growing list of popular sites as well), consider registering – it’s FREE.  Also, those who are registered will quality to show up in the sidebar under the “Who’s Talking” heading …

So, let the conversations begin!  Signup for IntenseDebate (you can just leave a comment below and checkoff the box that you wish to signup!) and come back and leave your first official “comment“.

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