My main reason for adding it was that I’ve decided on this go ’round I’m going to really try to build a presence on the web. There are a few ways you can do this but I consider most of them lame, i.e. link-exchanges. For any lasting effect links are not the answer, people are. Links live in servers housed in data centers. People live in communities.
I think using Disqus will help me build a community much more easily than the standard wordpress comment system. Disqus users will have a user account on my blog already which makes it easier for them to comment. That also makes it easier for me when I do db backups because without the comments the db *should* be much smaller.
It allows users to leave video responses via Seesmic, which makes commenting even easier. No Seesmic account? No problem. You can register a Seesmic account in the comment form without ever leaving the site. That, is awesome.
Also for those of you getting ready to protest about my claim that links don’t matter I know that they are vital part of attracting visitors. Disqus helps out there too. When you install the Disqus wordpress plugin you create a community page at Disqus. Mine is here.
There are also talks of FriendFeed integration which means that the community you build using Disqus will be even larger. Any way I’ve looked at it I see nothing but advantages to Disqus integration. Only time will tell for sure, but I think I’ve made a good choice here. That’s all for now, so let me know what you think.
It looks like my search for a new web host has ended, 000Webhost made it too damned easy 
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I’ve got the best free host in the world methinks. 250 MB Disk Space, 100 GB Data Transfer, PHP with MySQL Database Support, cPanel Control Panel,and Fantastico De Luxe 1-Click Autoinstaller. All for free!!
Who knows what I’ll do with it but at least I have it.
All my data was backed up and ported to here but the import system apparently doesn’t give two shits about the published date. Meh. Anyway everything from the old [XILED] is here so all my followers from there (read: spammers) can get over here.