Keeping the weblog comment feature disabled

Eden Prairie City Manager Scott Neal is a longtime blogger, a client, and known far and wide for his trademark weblog phrases

Putting a face on the faceless bureaucrat

and

Blog or be blogged.

He posted this entry yesterday:

Probably the most common question these days about my blog is why I don’t have it open for “comments” like other bloggers do. There are a couple of reasons for that.

Keeping the comments feature of a blog disabled is not a common practice among leaders who blog but it’s one I’ve long supported. Scott shows that there still can be some interactivity with a blog but in a way that can be more easily managed.

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