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Comment of the week and hoisting comments catching on

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 13:00 - by Patrick Thornton

The practice of hoisting comments is beginning to catch on with more beat bloggers.

Education Week’s Eduwonkette blog has launched its own comment of the week feature called the COWAbunga Award. The feature was inspired by one of the beat bloggers we’re following, Kent Fischer. This week, Eduwonkette is highlighting two user comments — one serious and one satirical:

Starting today and every week thereafter I’ll follow his example and give the COWAbunga Award to an insightful, interesting, or funny comment on this site.

For many beat bloggers, the idea of hoisting user comments is a good way to build community and make users feel like their opinions matter. It also doesn’t require a lot of work for a beat blogger that is already active within his or her blog’s comments section.

About BeatBlogging.Org

BeatBlogging.org was a grant-funded journalism project that studied how journalists used social media and other Web tools to improve beat reporting. It ran for about two years, ending in the fall of 2009.

New content is occasionally produced here by the this project's former editor Patrick Thornton. The site is still up and will remain so because many journalists and professors still use and link to the content. BeatBlogging.org offers a fascinating glimpse into the former stages of journalism and social media. Today it's expected that journalists and journalism organization use social media, but just a few years ago that wasn't the case.