Are you reading blog comments?

I don't know if this is the case for most of you guys but I tend to ignore the comments on blog posts I'm interested in and don't try reading them for the most case, but I've realized that by doing that I'm always half behind the truth.

for the most part of you stick with some blogger and follow his work if you respect him enough you may end up adopting his thought - even they may be miss leading - what I have learned today is never ignore comments specially for posts like this

at this specific post Jeff Atwood from CodingHorror discuss very interesting subject and I was about 80% agreeing with him until I start reading the comments I don't say I never do it but this time I realize how it's important.

not saying Jeff posts are miss leading but no one knows it all, no one all his thoughts counts.

so Are you reading blog comments?

Published 06-13-2007 11:02 PM by Adel Khalil
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# re: Are you reading blog comments?

Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:38 AM by Robin Paardekam

Hello Adel,

I think you got a good point here. I happen to read blog-comments often, just to see how other people think about the subject, see how the discussion evolves...

I experienced the same thing a few weeks ago, that reading comments all-of-a-sudden changed my opinion and made me doubt the reliability of the posting.

A few weeks back, all over the web I read about a "WiFi signal budle device". Boris Veldhuijzen-Van Zanten (a successful Dutch internet enterpreneur, founder of V3 and Bomega for example) blogged about it. He fantasized about having a device that could use all available WiFi-signals at once. That way he could multiply his bandwidth, at least, that's what he wanted.

An acquaintance of his took the challenge of building such a device for him. He created the "Slurpr" which is a box that receives 6 WiFi signals at the same time and bundles it into one big connection to the router's client. It seems a great device to me and I could imagine that a lot of people were willing to pay $1.000,= for it.

However... when reading the comments underneath all of these articles, I noticed more-and-more people saying that it is just NOT possible to have a device doing that. Now I must say that many of those comments went into the technical details too deep, so I could not understand it all, but seeing that so many people thought they could explain WHY it is IMPOSSIBLE to create such a device made me believe that this could be a hoax.

So reading the articles themselves really made me enthusiastic, but after reading several comments my opinion got almost turned around 180 degrees...

I must say that today I still am not convinced on who is right: can such a device be made or is it just a big hoax? (No need to discuss that here by the way, just wanted to illustrate what comments did for me.)

To see what I'm talking about, visit these sites:

www.bomega.com/.../who-will-build-me-a-wi-fi-canalizer (Boris' initial request)

geektechnique.org/.../slurpr-the-mother-of-all-wardrive-boxes (Slurpr project site)

www.veign.com/.../slurpr-wifi-access-point-which.html (Another blogger not sure if it's real or a hoax)

Regards,

Robin Paardekam

# re: Are you reading blog comments?

Saturday, June 16, 2007 11:18 AM by Adel Khalil

so you have been through the same thing, reading blog comments, researching the subject on different places is a must for not tolerable issues.

buling a foundation on top of other's brains is something you don't wanna do unless you have looked this information up on multiple places.

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