KoW’s readership is steadily increasing, particularly since the design change in January. And more and more readers are contributing to the debate by leaving comments. That has generated some great discussions – theoretical, practical, and even political – where scholars, staffers, and soldiers mingle. It will not come as a surprise to you that the posts with the best comments get significantly more traffic.
So, to help you make even better comments, you might have noticed already, we made a few technical changes in the past week.
- You can now edit comments for a 5-minute time window even after posting them (very techy of us, isn’t it?) That allows you to improve your pithy argument or even to insert some basic html (such as links);
- You can now easily subscribe to follow-on contributions to your own comment by email;
- And, if you want it all, you can subscribe to our comment feed.
We would also like to encourage scholars and academics to chime in — you may even link to your department website through the ‘website’ field. If you’re a general or a minister and prefer not using your real name when leaking sensitive information, we understand that, of course — just use a pen name.
And of course: be sensible, be polite.
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This is one of the better academic websites I’ve come across.
In particular, I like the “what we are reading” links to the side. It is intellectually generous to share information of that type with the blog’s readership. I understand that the information may be for students and the like, primarily, but for the layperson – like me! – it is especially helpful to get a sense of what scholars think is good, provocative, thoughtful.
Around our academic department hang various poster projects – details of experiments – and I am always touched by how many people stop to look, whether in the field of study or not.
Education is a fine thing.
I just tried the edit-comment function. Fantastic. Worked like a dream.