I tried out coComment a while ago and found it a bit clunky. Don’t get that confused with co.mments which I discovered thanks to TechCrunch’s review. Both tools help you to keep track of blog comments – it can be so easy to leave a comment on a blog and then forget to check back to see what people are saying in response. Yes, you could add it to your feedreader (sometimes it’s easier than others to find the feed for this) but co.mments makes it so quick, press a bookmarklet and it’s tracking it for you. You don’t even need to create an account.
When you check the tracker page, you get a helpful summary of the post and info like this:
No new comments, 32 in conversation. Last comment 7 hours ago. Remove. Ping.
co.comment will automatically check (ping) blog conversations to see if there’s new ones since your last visit but you can always do this manually.
I’d love it if they removed the blog-geek-term of “Ping” and replaced it with the phrase “Check now” or “Check again”.
I’ve emailed them with this suggestion.
your thoughts