Jul 21
The CoComment service has undergone a major update and it is much more useful now. If you don’t remember, CoComment is a service that allows you to track blog comments. When you make a comment it is added to your CoComment list of conversations, which is updated anytime someone else makes a comment. Until now, such notifications were limited to other CoComment users. Now they are crawling the conversations and updating when anyone posts, which means it’s actually useful, not just an interesting proof-of-concept.
You can, of course, subscribe to an RSS feed to be notified when new comments have been added to comment threads you have contributed to… less clutter in the mailbox!
I very recently realized how spoiled I am by Ruminate, in particular with respsect to the comments feed. Very few sites are actually offering a separate feed for comments. I’ve even put in a request to the blosxom gurus for a plugin that’ll give us blosxoms that great feature. The combo of a feed reader and comments feeds really makes for some wonderful distributed convesation—except you and Southern Discomfort are the only blogs in my regular reading that offer the option.
They may also be unadvertised… every wordpress site offers them (unless they’ve gone to a lot of trouble to disable them), but many people don’t provide links!
For some reason, my site is breaking CoComment, which would fill that void to some degree!
OKAY, having just successfully posted a comment to your blog via IE on another post (re: gmail), after attempting, without success, to post a comment to this post from Firefox - after I’d installed the cocommenting extension to the Firefox browser, I’ve returned (however grudgingly) to IE on this post; we’ll see what happens…
The upshot of all this: weirdly enough, the two initial efforts to post comments to this article, while they do show up at the profile I set up at cocomment, never actually posted here. (What happened was that I hit “add comment” and the screen just sat there, with my text still in this neat little box.) Wacky. Alas, it makes me feel sketchy about the cocommenting option (and I think I’ll be uninstalling the Firefox plugin).
ANY FREAKIN’ WAY, here was the comment I tried to leave earlier. Nothing earth-shattering, of course, and certainly not worthy of the lengthy and slightly ridiculous prelude above, but oh well:
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Well, hello boys. Re: SD offering the comment feed option, it is truly only because WordPress has ‘em by default, as Chris is saying; I like it just fine (would love if more services offered it), but wouldn’t have had the slightest concept of how to set it up on my own were it not for its being part of WordPress. Now, this cocomment thingie is a fascinating concept - I went ahead and signed up over there, will see how it does. (It seems a bit hocus-pocus-ey. Like, is this thing supposed to magically work for all the blog services and their commenting functions (when such are “a la carte,” e.g. Blogger users w/ HaloScan.)?
Yeah okay, that question is probable covered in the FAQ over there… maybe I should go read it…
Yeah, something about my setup is breaking the CoComment functions. The service does seem to work well, though. It always worked well for me before, but only for other CoComment enabled users/sites. Now it works pretty well even on most sites even if the user’s don’t have it!
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