• The Atlantic, Friday, August 28, 2015 2:19 PM

The Atlantic is reviving its blogging feature on its Notes section, as part of a larger effort to bring back the conversational aspect of online media, the high-brow intellectual and cultural journal announced this week. The new Notes format differs from other online content in that when people share something from an Atlantic blog online, the entire thread goes with it, keeping the conversational context intact; as one editor explained, “any of our thread-connected notes that travel around the web will carry all the related notes with them. Clicking into a note lands you at the top of the thread page, where you’ll see a brief overview of the blog conversation and, pinned right below, the note you clicked to see.” The note announcing “Notes” provides a good example of how it works.

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