The previous post was number 700. Not only do we here at New Media Hack own the term on Google, we own "media hack" to boot. It may be a very small pond, but sometimes it's good to be the big fish.
Take that Wired.
And since there seems to be a slight uptick in readership around here (7 to maybe 9), here's my thought on comments for this site.
Weblog comments are USENET done infinitely worse. It's like taking every thread and distributing it to a different host. With no protocol for monitoring and threading them to boot!! So you can't even read 'em in a halfway decent client. I don't have time to be constantly visiting your site and/or sifting through your comment feed to track a conversation. Although I agree with Phil Ringnalda that mouthing "get yer own blog" isn't sufficient as a solution either. And don't get me started on trackbacks although I thought they were sort of neat when they first emerged. Nor do I really want to deal with pruning comment spam no matter how good Movable Type, Wordpress, or any other blog tool gets at dealing with it.
Needless to say, if you want to engage me in a conversation on material on this blog, just send me an e-mail.