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I was wondering about a way to track the comments I post in many blogs and sites. There are interesting conversations going on and most current feed readers aren’t enough to keep updated with what others are saying.

Bart was kind enough to point me to cocomment (that’s the name, I’m not stammering), a nice service that makes life easier for commenters and bloggers alike.

Commenters just have to install a Firefox extension and a small bar will appear at the bottom of the text area where they write their comments. cocomment works with Internet Explorer using a bookmarklet but I didn’t test it, who needs that browser anyway?

Once you post a comment, it’s tracked by cocomment. There’s a little icon at the status bar of your browser that alerts you whenever somebody adds a new comment to the discussions you are following. It’s small and non distractive but even so you have to keep yourself under control. Highly commented posts could consume your whole day if you try to read them too often.

Clicking the cocomment icon takes you to the cocomment site and there you’ll find a simple but usable table with the latest comments from the posts you’re tracking.

Everything is quite simple to use.

And bloggers don’t need to worry, most blogging systems are supported by cocomment. If yours is not, integration consists of playing with a few lines of Javascript and the code of your content management system or blog platform.

I spent a few minutes with my Drupal templates before finding out that Olav had already written a cocomment module. Great work, thanks dude. A couple of clicks later and both mumobo and Telework People were cocomment-enabled.

cocomment’s Firefox extension also installed a bookmarklet where you can enable tracking of a discussion even if you are not commenting. A good idea for blog-voyeurs.

So, pay a visit to cocomment, it can save some minutes a day and help you find lots of interesting discussions where you can waste your whole day once again. Nothing is perfect, uh?