If you leave a comment on my blog, who owns the rights to that comment? Do I own it? You’re submitting a comment to me. You’re leaving a comment, which would imply it’s mine, right? Do you own it? You’re the one creating the content in the first place. You’re writing it, and if you choose to be, you’re getting a byline for writing it.

This is a little delayed, but Mike Montano from BackType left a comment on my post “Twitter for Comments?” Here’s what Mike had to say:
Thanks for writing about us. We’re working really hard to add blogs to the service to make it useful for our readers. Feel free to send me an email at mm [...]

So there’s a new service out there which is supposed to be the new hotness according to TechCrunch: BackType, A Twitter For Comments.

How do you generate comments for your posts? I’m not sure there’s any answer besides creating a community. For instance, my post on Guillermo Vargas Habacuc draws lots of people in from Google, but there have been no comments left on the story. It has the highest amount of page views, but nothing in terms [...]