Interesting idea from Daniel Sandler regarding the use of Twitter as a comments platform:

Blog comments don’t really encourage robust discussion. (The only people who look twice at the comments are the original author and readers with an axe to grind.) But ad hoc multi-party discussion does happen on Twitter. I’m experimenting with promoting Twitter to a first-class blog comments system.

This is of particular interest to me. As a fledgling blogger designing my site, I have thought for a long time about the use of comments. Ultimately I have installed a ‘standard’ comments system familiar to anyone who has ever read a blog, but I hope to be able to use something like this in future. I think it will make people ‘own’ their comments and will help to promote genuine discussion around a topic.