--- title: How Dialogue Is Becoming the New Internet Comments Section description: How internet "dialogue" is the new commenting, indexing freed slave records, measuring credit for the poor and more. canonical: https://time.com/4116339/dialogue-new-comments-section-internet/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-17T17:01:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:54.994Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Dialogue Is Becoming the New Internet Comments Section og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4116339/dialogue-new-comments-section-internet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Dialogue Is Becoming the New Internet Comments Section twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Dialogue Is Becoming the New Internet Comments Section by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 17, 2015 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 17, 2015 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Meet “dialogue,” the new front in the Internet commenting wars.**](http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/11/meet-dialogue-the-new-front-in-the-internet-commenting-wars/) By Laura Hazard Owen in Nieman Lab **2\.** [**You can help the Smithsonian index the records of tens of thousands of freed slaves.**](http://www.discoverfreedmen.org/) By the Freedmen’s Bureau Project **3\.** [**We need a better way to measure credit for the very poor.**](http://news.mit.edu/2015/student-profile-natalia-rigol-1020) By Julia Sklar in MIT News **4\.** [**Stop complaining about media coverage of terrorism. The problem is your friends.**](https://medium.com/re-magazine/the-media-did-cover-attacks-on-insert-country-here-you-just-weren-t-reading-it-1543447db983) By Emma Kelly in Medium **5\.** [**Learn about a pseudoscience that put uncounted thousands behind bars.**](http://www.bostonreview.net/books-ideas/nathan-robinson-forensic-pseudoscience-criminal-justice) By Nathan J. Robinson in the Boston Review  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4116339/dialogue-new-comments-section-internet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4116339/dialogue-new-comments-section-internet/"},"headline":"How Dialogue Is Becoming the New Internet Comments Section","datePublished":"2015-11-17T17:01:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:54.994Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4116339/dialogue-new-comments-section-internet/","keywords":["Innovation","facebook","Terrorism","slavery","Credit"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4116339/dialogue-new-comments-section-internet/","name":"How Dialogue Is Becoming the New Internet Comments Section"}}]}] ```