UPDATE: Accessing Facebook through TypePad isn’t working very well, so I have added a plugin that should let you login to commenting using Facebook directly. I recommend either Facebook or Google for commenting as both of these show your name.
And not only is The Speculist back online, we’re (finally) fully open once again for comments. You can log into comments any number of ways (including via Facebook if you have a TypePad account.) We strongly recommend using OpenID for commenting, but whatever you use, when you preview your comment, make sure that that the method of commenting you use displays your name — or at least what you want to be called in the context of the discussion.
Some of our fist few comments on the new system came from:
(which is me!)
and
Which is a friend, but we know not who. And it’s hard to address someone with a string like that. So please, if you’re signed in as a big long string, sign your comments. Even writing “No Name” at the bottom gives fellow subsequent participants in the thread someone to address.
Also, please join the new Google friends group.
See, Stephen? Twitter feeds. Social networking. We’ve finally gone web 2.0!
There will be more gadgets and subtle design changes in the coming weeks. We welcome suggestions about what you’d like to see here.