Ruth Gledhill of The Times gives an excellent illustration of why it is important for comments to be allowed on blogs. Astonishingly, she had to put a post on her own well known blog just to contact a blogger who misquoted her. Here is her whole post, including the title:
Christopher of In God’s Coutry – contact me
This is the only way I can think of contacting you as the unhelpful people who run your Six Apart software won’t contact you on my behalf and it seems to be impossible to register to post a comment on your blog. Neither can I find any contact details for you on your blog. Your post misquotes me and needs correcting, that’s all. Please email me, thank you, Ruth.
Interesting… I do agree that it is helpful for a blogger to have at least a way of making contact with them. To both not list an email address AND not have comments enabled is a little unhelpful.