Note: if you comment at a site using Disqus, the site owner does see the email you registered with. But that's pretty much the case w/ any commenting software. And that only works for people who have actually commented at the site (kenzoid.com, in my case); I can't just go surfing around the disqus userbase sucking up emails just b/c I use it for comments. It does link your comments together, of course, but that's kinda the point. *grin*

I dig it…I had an account before I used it on my site, and it's been pretty much flawless through two different site backends now. Recommended as both a commenter and as an admin.

So, my question is, how are they (Disqus) on the privacy/spamming front? I have a “trash” public email address I use to register for most things, rather than the (slightly) more private one I use for most of my actual personal correspondence.

It seems like maybe the personal one would be better for this, since I imagine reading comments, etc. from that address, but I don't want to use it, if it opens up more spam…

I agree that if you're already a scifi reader, Snow Crash isn't the game-changer that many seem to believe it was. A rollicking fun story, though; my nerd friends and I still joke about “listening to Reason”. *grin*

And thanks for posting at the site, BTW. I'm just recently started trying to roll some of my energy back out of the big SNS and into my blog and other individual sites. Also, note that you can register at Disqus and “claim” that comment above (as well as any others that you've made w/ the same email address), and that you have multiple registration options, including your Facebook identity, OpenIDs, Yahoo, Google, etc. It's a pretty nice system, really. It gives you the advantage of “single sign-on”/shared identity without requiring you to only use one social networking site.

I liked Snow Crash, but was less blown away than many people seemed to be. (So many people thought his Meta-verse thing was such a brilliant innovation, but was I the only one that thought Gibson's Neuromancer had already anticipated that by many years?)

But anyway, yes, the man can write.