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Harry Potter

Posted by danleone on July 21st, 2007

What I was doing at midnight last night….


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CoCommenter

Posted by danleone on July 21st, 2007

As we all know, a successful blogger is as much about commenting as it is about posting. In fact, in my case, it is more about commenting than it is about anything. Commenting is a way for me to feel like I have actually contributed to the blogging community without actually doing any of the real blogging. It is sort of the same as when you call your local public television station and “pledge” to mail a donation but never really doing it. You delude yourself that you are really contributing when in fact, you’ve done nothing.

The problem I have found with commenting is that I have to remember where I commented in order to see if there is any follow-up to my pithy observation. Just two weeks ago, I commented on a random blog about the Scooter Libby pardon and for the life of me, I cannot remember where I put that comment and I know the blogger would have a reply that I was sincerely interested in.

Well fret no more. Your blogging prayers [brayers] have been answered. I recently came across a service called CoComment and this website allows you to track all your comments in a centralized location online. From here, you can track both the comments you have made and all subsequent comments. Better yet, you can discover where some of the more active commenters are leaving their mark and follow them around the blogosphere. You can add tags and follow the comments of others too.

You can even add a widget to your blog so all your fans can see where you are commenting.

CoCommenter supports many of the blogging platforms that you are likely to come across in your blog surfing. It requires either a Firefox extension (extremely convenient) or you can run it on Internet Explorer as a bookmarklet.

I have been using it for about 2 weeks now and I love it. I am not sure if there are better systems out there, but so far this is very good.

Have fun out there! I have to run and make a pledge.




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