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Old school blogging, aka How to get rid of obsessions

Tuesday, 7. February 2006, 12:57:49

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Russell (well known blogger about mobile tech) sees only one way to stop compulsively checking comments on his blog: disable comments completely. That seems a bit drastic, but I think I understand the problem. Luckily, I don't get that many comments here...

But he'll still check ego feeds at Technorati e.a., so he'll read this, wasting another 20 seconds. Looks like another obsession to kill to me :smile:

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Russ writes:


Urgh! You caught me! Crap, maybe I should turn them back on, it'd be more efficient... ;-)

-Russ

By anonymous user, # 7. February 2006, 17:41:36

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Luckily, I don't get that many comments here...
Here's one. p: I'm glad we have the notifications in this community (the Community News panel, for example).

By scipio, # 7. February 2006, 17:42:32

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