tracking your comments
It’s been one of the trickier elements of the blogosphere - how do you track the comments you leave on other people’s blogs? If you are anal enough, I guess you could bookmark them, but cmon… really.
A couple of weeks ago, Des told me how he’s been doing it - he’s created a del.icio.us tag called “mycomments” and he creates a del.icio.us bookmark with that tag every time he leaves his mark. I’ve been trying to the same thing, and it’s pretty cool, especially as you can create an RSS feed for the tag. But the only problem is that it doesn’t show you what the replies to your comment are (or even if there are any), so you need to go site trawling… how 1995.
Today I tested out cocomment, a new service for doing the same thing, but with added benefits. With cocomment, you can actually see the new comments, but only if they are made by another cocomment user. That’s sweet. The only downside is that you need to change the way you leave comments - but only slightly. You need to bookmark the comment BEFORE you leave it, you can’t do it afterwards. Not so hard, just requires a change of habit, and we both know how hard it is to change those goddamn things.