Back in April I posted about two comment tracking systems, cocomment and co.mment, and here are some reflections after using them for a few months.
As predicted, I have been using co.mment more, because it is able to track just about any type of comments. Just hit the little bookmarklet thing, et voila, you’re tracking a conversation. When people reply to the same post I did, it shows up in my RSS reader. Cool.
I still like the idea of cocomment better, though. I have a little firefox extension that tells me when a site is cocomment enabled, and when I h ave new comments. When I comment on an enabled system (like blogger) it automatically saves it – I have to do nothing. In theory, it is wonderful, but too many blogging systems don’t have it, and I’m not sure if it will track non-cocomment-user comments, so I’m not yet sure how accurate or useful it is. I am trying to figure out how to implement on this blog for your comment-tracking pleasure, but I can’t figure it out [reminder about future post about possibly moving from Nucleus to WordPress - any ideas, people?].
Anyway, I am going to keep trying to use both of these, becuase the effort is minimal and the potential benefit is good – all of your comments in one place.
