The Death of Comments

Another blog becomes comment-free... Signal vs Noise, the 37 Signals blog will no longer feature commentable posts. This must have been a difficult decision, they get so much traffic over there, with their posts regularly getting well over 100 comments. But, I understand the sentiment, would I like to blog if every post I made brought me a squall of negativity... probably not. From a cold marketing position, I could say that it doesn't matter what's in the comments, at least it's traffic on my site and they might click some ads, but I doubt that would work for me. I'm too human, all that fighting and negativity would bum me out.

Sticking with the 37 Signals theme, WorkHappy linked to an interview with Jason Fried, where he talks about his less is better philosophy.

I also forgot to link to my Codesnipers post this week, which I guess I could say is related, in which I started talking about how I've been trying out Ruby on Rails. I don't have much background in web development, and I doubt that I'll be using Rails in a serious application anytime soon, but I've heard so much about it that I had to give it a try.