Earlier today during Facebook’s f8 developers conference, Mark Zuckerberg announced a major change for Facebook user profiles. Over the next few weeks, Facebook will roll out timeline to everyone. Timeline was created to solve what Facebook considered a major problem with shared content as it aged. The problem is that everything except for fairly recent posts get buried on everyone’s Facebook profile. Facebook wanted to come up with a way to make all the information that was shared over the years easily accessible. It’s an interesting concept, but a lot of Facebook users are crying foul.

Once again, the Web works its magic in mysterious ways. I had just completed posting a comment on a favorite blog – and yes, I signed my real name – when I read about a discussion at a Digital Hollywood conference that focused on Internet comments.

The man in charge of the Washington Post’s online division told the audience he’d like to see technology ride to the rescue to get rid of trolls and flame-throwing commenters on the newspaper’s blogs. Jim Brady was describing the aftermath of what happened two years ago when the newspaper’s ombudsman erred on a political story. Hundreds of commenters high on conspiracy theory fumes blasted the website, and many were very nasty, so Brady shut down all comments. The resulting furor made its way to other websites and forums, and many there accused him of trampling on free speech.

On the contrary, says Brady. He just wants a civil discussion, and anonymity doesn’t help the cause. Maybe some form of identity authorization – credit cards? drivers licenses? – would do the trick, he argued:

It seems these days with every new and old web service everything is going social. You have social networks, social bookmarking and of course you have very social services like Twitter. So with that said what about blog comments, can you make those social? Enter Disqus (Pronounced like Discuss) and now comments on your blog more »