Michael Pollitt | freelance technology journalist

Is this a valuable comment? ‘The idea of generating the ozone inside the sealed package is pretty inspired, really interesting’ . No. And especially not if you’re leaving it with a link to a firm of solicitors. My story today – Are comment links just a form of spam? – takes a closer look.

Update 9 June: This piece produced some interesting and valuable comments:-

Technology Guardian’s letters and blogs (June 4)

Blog commenting is not an SEO technique (Patrick Altoft’s blog)