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.