Comments on: An interview with an anonymous blog commenter

By: Flora y fauna de Internet « Felix Maocho

Flora y fauna de Internet « Felix Maocho — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:42:29 +0000

[...] Blogger entrevista a uno de sus trolls. (texto y vídeo en inglés) Resulta ser un tío muy normal y majete. Es cierto lo que dicen. La gente normal, puede comportarse como locos en la red. [...]

By: Steve Lawson

Steve Lawson — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:04:51 +0000

hang on, how can I not have commented here before? How remiss of me!

Anyway, this is quite possibly the finest use of social media in the news I’ve ever come across. It’s a brave, creative, brilliant and innovative thing to do, and I hope more journalists get to see it and get inspired by it to see the way social media builds bridges with the communities that are formed around newspapers, especially local ones.

great to see you today. I just hope the Times realise who they’ve hired and give you some space in be just as innovative there…

By: SocialMediaCampLondon2

SocialMediaCampLondon2 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:32:01 +0000

[...] This was a great talk from Joanna Geary about how she met her troll in real life. While working for The Birmingham Post, she came across a regular commenter, “Clifford”, who was very criticizing about The Post. After a while she wanted to meet him in real life and see what type of person leaves those type of comments. Turned out in real life, he was a very polite and nice old man; and he was oblivious to the image he had online. Read more about Clifford on Joanna’s blog. [...]

By: Ron_n

Ron_n — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:34:18 +0000

Excellent stuff!

By: Hvordan håndtere troll: intervju dem « NONA: nettverket for oss som jobber med nettmedier

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:32:02 +0000

[...] Comment! Nok en gang har debatten om forhåndsmoderering av nettdebatt dukket opp i Journalistens spalter, denne gangen med Aftenposten og ikke Journalisten selv som den utpekte skurken – og det med en analogi om fyllekjøring som NONA styremedlem Vampus synes er ganske så håpløs. [...]

By: something I said : Conversation This Is?

something I said : Conversation This Is? — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:53:00 +0000

[...] As usual, top stuff Joanna. [...]

By: An interview with an anonymous blog commenter by Joanna Geary - jon bounds

An interview with an anonymous blog commenter by Joanna Geary - jon bounds — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:03:02 +0000

[...] He gives a good example of what it takes to keep people coming back to blogs [link] [...]

By: Jon Bounds

Jon Bounds — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:03:53 +0000

Really good, brave of him to do it and you guys to ask him in. He’s got a lot right there, and I feel suitably chastised don’t think I’ve blogged on the Post site for a couple of weeks.

what I found especially interesting was how little difference he saw between commenting and blogging (and too with commenting on a forum like The Stirrer’s).

That’s something that you certainly wouldn’t see on a huge paper, nor a newspaper where the bloggers hadn’t been encouraged so much to get involved with the debate. So that’s to the Post’s (and your) credit.

By: Leonardo Morgado

Leonardo Morgado — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:54:51 +0000

Genuine and wonderful attempt to engage with your readers. Also it opens the debate about how much of interpersonal interaction is about body language, intonation, facial expressions etc.

Perhaps, this is the limitations of blogs but then again you get all the aforementioned qualities with video.

Richard proves that people do engage with the web in an intelligent and questioning way and not mindlessly absorb the information they read, see and listen to.

Good job all round.

By: Nick Booth

Nick Booth — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:50:37 +0000

“If it’s going to work, people have to work at it” is possibly the definitive statement on social media! Nice job both of you. Thanks