+1 - Duncan Riley

One commenter on Hacker News suggested that with Fred's interest in Disqus... assume you have a centralized comments database, and you can selectively copy in your comments in from other sites and add them as one Tumblr-like stream. Would that be his new form of blogging? - Louis Gray

@louis "comment blogging'? I guess it could work, depending on the kind of comments one writes. If it's part of a discussion, the disembodied comment might not be very useful in and of itself. Edit: as I think about this more, maybe the real difference between blog posts and long comments is in the audience - a comment I write pretty much towards one single reader - the author of the original post - a blog post is for my own audience - Frederic

Yet the comments written here can be for both - the audience or the originator of that item. The point is that theres a discussion either way. I try to comment only when it contributes to the conversation. - Roberto Bonini

u are bang on target, Comments are not blog posts...... but then the other idea what Fred is talking about is worth thinking, like posting good quality comments on the front page and stuff...... is a good idea......... this will encourage more folks to leave a comment. - sachin sawant

i think the paradigm gets altered on friendfeed because a lot more people see your comments then they would on a "normal" blog post - Tyler J. Gillies

I can see Louis' angle on Fred's views, but I'm still not buying it. In my mind, most blog posts can exist with no comments and still make sense. This is probably not true for an isolated comment. - Shey

I offer that a blog post is a comment but a comment is not a blog post. - Bwana

Isn't "comments as blog posts" essentially what disqus et. al. are trying to do? - keif from twhirl

@Bwana agreed - Shey

i guess i am quite a bit out of the loop on this topic, but i can not seem to be concerned whether a comment is a blog post or a blog post is a comment or if a comment is owned or not-- what's important is whether or not there is actually a conversation or not-- is the blog post or comment standing on its own or is it in response to another blog post of comment- there is context there, and that is more important than whether or not we place a label that piece of conversational retort. - Nathan Eckenrode