Three old comments moderated finally

Last summer, three comments were left on blog posts here, and I found myself having to think about whether or not they should be published. In general, comments fall into two buckets -- spam and legitimate/informative -- and those are easy to moderate, but ones that make you think take time. And of course, thinking turned into procrastination. Today, that procrastination ended.

I actually did approve two of the comments and reject the third. In each case, I added a comment to the blog with an explanation. The blog posts were:

• Article: Cornell University Library becomes newest partner in Google Book Search Library Project
• Competing with Google & others
• Agreement between California Digital Library and Google

The last one is an older post from 2006, which received its comment in summer 2007, proving that older posts are still read and relevant.

Why am I telling you about this? Well, I wanted you to know that I really do think about the comments that people leave. I also wanted the commenters -- who I suspect are regular readers -- to know that I had not forgotten about their comments.