Interactivity within sites

My favorite part about blogs is the interaction between users on the site. This ability helps to create a community within the site's users. Even if the people never meet, they get to recognize user names and their likes or dislikes. While reading through the different sites i decided to list what they offer in terms of user input.

News Sites:
New York Times offers users the ability to comment on articles in the page. These comments seem to be monitored closely because after a while comments are no longer accepted.

BBC News offers little user input. Readers can email articles to others. There is a section called "Have Your Say" where users can discussed topics posted by the website.

News Blogs:
Talking Points Memo offers users the ability to comment directly on the articles page.

Pajamas Media
This site also gives the reader the ability to comment on articles.

Community Specific Blog:
Jack and Jill Politics probably has the best in user interaction. Everyday there is a post titled "Open Thread" where the users put up what news, link, or videos they want and others can comment on them. People here can also put up open discussion questions not necessarily news.

Since I am a big fan of blogs and user interaction, I think that Jack and Jill is the best blog. Unlike the rest, this site offers user the ability to post what they want, not just in comments but also in topics. Understandably news sites cannot do this because needed to keep quality but they should allow more user involvement I think, like the news blogs. I find it distracting to have to go a completely separate page to see what others think about the same topic, so i enjoy having comments below the article like Talking Points Memo and Pajamas Media.

Since you can tell I love comments so much, feel free to.

Community specific languange

When reading through the blogs Jack and Jill and VivirLatino I have noticed the language used in both the blog itself and the comments use language specific to the community.

An example from Jack and Jill is the first comment on a picture of Sasha and Malia Obama at the inaguration day parade looking bored. Because this community is targetted towards the African American audience, this kind of language is probably seen as acceptable.

The blog VivirLationo incorporates a spanglish language approach to their blog. For example their description section starts out with the Spanish greeting "Hola!" with the description following being in English. This language says that he blog is intended for bilingual readers, though people familiar with the language and its slang could probably also read it without much difficulty.

Between these two blogs, Iwould feel more comforatble commenting on the second, this is probably because I am Latina. When reading the first comment on Jack and Jill I felt uncomfortable and thought that I never post slang like that on a blog even with the ethnic invisibility of the internet.