Annie Mole has reported on Olympic "queuing rehearsals," and generated a lively comment thread.
Food television and blogs have stoked the obsession, offering lists, reviews and shows that anoint the "best of," which in turn encourage lively comment threads and send diners out to taste for themselves.
A lively comment stream last week on an Education News Colorado story about Denver's new SchoolChoice system prompted me to take a journey into the not-too-distant past.
The topic of reservations is now "a lively subject of comment among our contributors," he said of Zagat's citizen-reviewers, whose average age is in the 40s and whose average household income, he said, is $158,000.
Recently during a lively discussion in the comments section of an article on the Huffington Post, one commentator said (paraphrasing) that NPR is perceived to have a liberal bias because "they're reality based" and reality has a liberal bias.
(City Room readers weighed in overnight with a lively debate in the comments).
That has been a topic of lively debate in the comments section of the Monday article, "Backlash by the Bay".
Most weeks that created a lively debate in our comments section, as students of all ages, backgrounds and places pushed each other to find detail and defend interpretations.
Photograph: Facebook There's a lively debate in the comments, with the PM being reminded that the Conservatives voted against the introduction of the minimum wage in 1998.
His long-running visual monologue comments in lively fashion on the real and the art worlds (a sample, shown here, embellishes a polite rejection letter from the Whitney Museum).
