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Comment Spam Alert: I Read a Similar Article « Lorelle on WordPress — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:49:54 +0000

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By: Stephane Grenier

Stephane Grenier — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:48:26 +0000

Hi Lorelle,

If you ever do find one, please post about it. I know me and many others would like to know!

And as a quick tip, here’s a great business opportunity. There’s demand and no great solution. What more can you ask for?

By: John P.

John P. — Tue, 01 May 2007 18:49:36 +0000

The better question is do you modify your blog to include php snippets or plug ins to make it easier for commenters to track their comments or do you assume that savvy commenters know how to use their tracking service’s bookmarklet?

By: John P.

John P. — Tue, 01 May 2007 18:19:02 +0000

I am not sure if I like coComment so I’m going to try co.mments starting with this comment.

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Editing Your Blog Comments « Lorelle on WordPress — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:46:44 +0000

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By: Rich Tatum

Rich Tatum — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 22:18:05 +0000

Lorelle, like you I comment on others’ blogs frequently, and I tried various methods of reminding myself to check back for comments, but that is so information-and-task-overloading that it’s not worth it. I tried a couple comment-tracking systems, I even tried web-page trackers like Copernic’s tracker (which works, but it also notifes me when elements on a page change, so, more information overload again).

I tried out coComment and, at first, I didn’t really like it. The service was spotty, a number of blogs were invisible to the coComment tool, and I couldn’t easily add an old comment to the tracker if I wanted to continue tracking it.

However, I’m happy to say that coComment now has a crawler that works, I can add all my old comments easily, and I’ve been delighted at its ability to not only track new responses but to notify me in the status bar of Firefox when there are changes to my comments list.

Further, it allowed me to grab the feed and post it on my WordPress blog so that all my own comments at other sites can be read while surfing my blog. This is more google juice, and allows people to “stalk” me from my own Website. Now, posting a comment is also adding content to my blog.

Nice.

coComment isn’t perfect, but it is improving. It’s worth a second look.

Regards,

Rich
BlogRodent

By: Michael Hepden

Michael Hepden — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 04:02:24 +0000

Good Post!!

Was wondering about this topic just the other day, and now a post appears to think for me!!
I used to save the page I commented on and go back and see if it got answered.

I just went over and signed up to cocomment and finding it little tricky to find how to use.

Thanks for the information on this!!

Michael

By: Pascal Van Hecke

Pascal Van Hecke — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 13:41:41 +0000

I keep my own comments in del.icio.us, at least the ones I might want to refer later to.
In order to follow a comment thread, I subscribe to the comment feed - for this thread, that’s
http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/07/monitoring-blog-comments/feed/

I keep a comment feed in my reader till the discussion died, or went off-topic.

Not all blogging systems provide comment feeds per posting, but most serious bloggers use a serious blogging platform that does

By: brilliantideas

brilliantideas — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 22:18:48 +0000

I’ve just come across a new “tool” called Furl. It is an online bookmarking service that allows you to categorize links and assign key words and a description. There are a lot of other features as well. I have created a blog comment category and am using it to track the comments I am making. It beats the 100 tab thing and I can access the links from any computer.

Cheers,
John

By: Collin

Collin — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 21:29:14 +0000

Subscribe to comments:

Well, I’m not as popular as some and only get around a hundred emails per day. Junk filters catch most of these which only leaves me about 30 mails.

For the record I have the option un-ticked by default. I don’t see why I should force the crap on everyone by default.

I agree that the option should be far more obvious and having just looked at my blog I’m just gonna nip off and figure out how to move it…