Earlier this year, a group of climate scientists were outraged about a Wall Street Journal editorial. In an earlier era, they might have written a letter to the editor, or meekly submitted their ...

If Shakespeare’s Hamlet joined an online chat, he’d probably write: “To be and not to be, that is the option.” But you can bet the Prince of Denmark wouldn’t use his real name. Perhaps he’d call ...

Popular Science magazine shut down online comments to stories on its website Tuesday. Robert Siegel speaks with Jacob Ward, the magazine's editor-in-chief, for more on the decision. The Internet, from ...

The Buffalo News instituted a new policy Monday for readers making Web site comments on news stories a change watched closely by newspapers across the nation. The News now allows online comments on ...

Billed as a new “Social surfing” layer for the web, Pushnote is a browser plugin that allows you to comment on any webpage. It includes social features that let you follow friends’ comments and find ...

Google launched the new Web comment and annotation system Wednesday. Google Sidewiki allows Web surfers to post and read comments about Web page content and ranks posted comments according to their ...