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1. wannabeMogul on February 23, 2008 Feb 23, 08 | 5:25 am

   SezWho is a really great concept for a plug-in. It’s hard to really identify who a commenter is and where their biases might be just from a website link they leave–and sometimes they don’t even leave one.

   I’ll definitely try it out here, and I might even have to take your lead and add it to my own blog.

2. John Jantsch on February 23, 2008 Feb 23, 08 | 5:57 am

   Thanks for the input - I agree, it’s nice to get some sense of how active folks are and what themes they have when it comes to comments.

3. Yvonne DiVita on February 23, 2008 Feb 23, 08 | 7:54 am

   This seems line a great plug-in, John. When you say plug-in… does that mean it doesn’t work like a widget? (my tech ability is limited, as you can tell) If it doesn’t work like a widget, will it work on a typepad blog, too?

4. Arpan Jhaveri on February 23, 2008 Feb 23, 08 | 12:01 pm

   John, have a look at IntenseDebate. I did a comparison of both SezWho and them on my personal blog an ended up using IntenseDebate. The two things that swayed me were the reputation system, where people can, a la digg, vote other comments up or down and the RSS feeds for other users to subscribe to comments. Note - i am in no way affiliated with the product - just a very happy user!

5. John Jantsch on February 23, 2008 Feb 23, 08 | 12:32 pm

   Yvonne - this won’t be the most technical definition but basically a plug-in is something provides function and the widget is more often about how that function is displayed. So, you can have plug-ins that use widget technology and some that don’t.

   WP has enabled widgets as a way to drag an drop a certain plug-ins function onto your theme without any coding. (Of course there are other widgets out there that would allow you paste something to you theme from another site too.)

   Back to the plug-in SezWho is a plug in that make display without a widget because I already have comment display all set-up

   The recent post plug in in the left side bar is a plugin that displays using the widget drag an drop readiness of my theme.

   Hope that didn’t make things less clear!

6. John Jantsch on February 23, 2008 Feb 23, 08 | 12:33 pm

   Arpan,

   Thanks for that tip, I’ll have a look at IntenseDebate. Is it 2.3 ready?

7. John Calkins on February 23, 2008 Feb 23, 08 | 1:27 pm

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8. May on February 24, 2008 Feb 24, 08 | 9:54 pm

   Thanks for the info on SezWho! Checked out the website myself

9. Nancy Cole on April 29, 2008 Apr 29, 08 | 11:59 am

   Hi there,

   For easy, cut-and-paste widgets that include comments, ratings, scores and top-rated content, check out js-kit.com. TechCrunch called it “easy peasy”.

   Cheers,

   Nancy

10. Walt Goshert on April 30, 2008 Apr 30, 08 | 7:09 pm

    John,

    Any conclusions on use of Sez Who?

    I’ve noticed that very few people vote up comments. Seems like not many people are tapping into this feature of Sez Who.

    But, it is nice to see where and what someone has commented previously.

    I’ll have to check out IntenseDebate.

11. Jeneane on May 28, 2008 May 28, 08 | 7:35 pm

    John, what do you think so far?

12. 2mk on July 2, 2008 Jul 02, 08 | 10:34 pm

    This plugin make author link become not direct link.

13. Justin on July 15, 2008 Jul 15, 08 | 4:25 pm

    I like the plugin, I just starting using it myself on my own website.