I just saw a link to coComment (via an OReilly blog, IIRC – can’t seem to find the link at the moment) It looks like a way to track comments that you make on various blogs, providing a way to keep on top of conversations distributed throughout the blogosphere.
I’ve been doing a low-tech version of this by tagging blog comments on del.icio.us with “blogcomment” so I can periodically check in on them. But this appears to but some intelligence, or at least some automation, behind the concept.
coComment is in a closed beta, by invitation only. If anyone has the goods and feels like hooking me up, I’d love to take it for a test drive. I’m just sayin’…
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I just heard about coComment today. Someone said that you can go to their site and sign up to be kept up to date on the project and they would send you an invitation. I did that and got my invitation a few hours later. You might try that.
Yeah – I signed up earlier today, but no matter how many times I click “Get Mail” it doesn’t seem to work
[...] D’Arcy blogged about coComment, a new tool for tracking distributed conversations by keeping track of comments you have made on various blogs. Now we can achieve total zen-like serenity by blogging across the internet without actually having a blog. The description at the coComment site sound great, and a brief poke around shows that each persons list of comments has RSS and Atom feeds available, so someone can now establish a blog by putting up a single web page with a little bit of rss2js sweetness embedded in it, and update the content just by putting comments on other blogs, or just add a bit of the feed to the sidebar of a regular blog. This seems like a great way to encourage interaction. I know that I normally put my reactions to other peoples’ posts on my own blog, but with this I’ll be more inclined to be a bit more neighbourly. At least, I will once I have a chance to use it – sadly, coComment is in beta and requires an invitation code (which I have signed up for!). Heck, if I had this going already, I might have just commented on D’Arcy’s blog instead of posting to my own! :^D [...]
Thanks for this notice, D’Arcy. This is exactly the kind of tool I’ve been looking for. I just dropped off my email; let’s see if they write back.
Update: I got my invitation code within five minutes, and now I’m in. This looks very cool indeed.
Thanks for pointing this out, D’Arcy. I’ve just got my invitation code and decided I would give you the honour of having my first coCommented comment. This is a terrific tool, and one that will prove very valuable to many of the distributed communities on the web.
This thing looks like a pretty sweet pan-blogosphere tool. Wonder how it handles displaying stuff…
Hey, D’Arcy, in case you’re still looking, Laurent left a bunch of codes on my web site, and there are more at his.
http://charlie.dgrc.crc.ca/cgi-bin/Sylvie/Blog/casarch.pl?2006/01/07/3.txt#commentaires
I want in! Waiting for that reply from the request form, but if anyone has an invite….
It’s not a GMail-style invite – you can’t invite other folks – but some keys have been leaked into the wild. Sylvie has a few listed in the comments of her blog, and there are a couple more on BinaryBonsai.com
coComment works pretty darned well, but is barfing on some WordPress blogs with non-default themes *cough*mine*ahem*
I got it. Co-commeting now.
I now need a bookmarklet ro remind me to use this bookmarklet.
Maybe I will be Co-dependent-Co-commenting.
I just herad at performancing that a greasemonkey script can automate cocommneting. The mentioned link is http://www.solutionwatch.com/313/comment-tracking-with-cocomment/ … check it out … I am waiting for my invitation .-)