Comments on: coComment Does Web 2.0 Right

By: Geoffrey Allan Plauche

Geoffrey Allan Plauche — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:12:06 +0000

Looks like they still haven’t fixed some of the problems you mentioned over a year ago: blog titles and tagging, for example. They still don’t have Blogger support either and it’s one of the major blogging services.

By: David Louis Edelman

David Louis Edelman — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:12:35 +0000

It’s been a while since I used coComment… I actually uninstalled it quite some time ago and took the scripts off the blog. Not because I disliked it so much as because I wasn’t really using it as much as I thought I would.

LibraryThing, however, remains awesome.

By: Geoffrey Allan Plauche

Geoffrey Allan Plauche — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:41:52 +0000

I just decided to try out coComment on your recommendation.

(You also introduced me to LibraryThing, and showed me some web design sins I have been guilty of and some I still was guilty of until I read your blog. Thanks!)

It’s strange though. Your blog shows up in conversations on my cocomment page as “Ann Coulter and “Perfect” Faith (David Louis Edelman)”.

By: Stephanie Booth

Stephanie Booth — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 09:19:23 +0000

No way to fix your blog title yourself, but it’s something we usually gladly do when asked.

To tag your existing comments, go on your conversation page, display the comment you want to tag, and click the Edit link next to “Tags”. No way to batch-edit, though.

By: David Louis Edelman

David Louis Edelman — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 02:21:00 +0000

AA: I haven’t noticed too much of a slowdown on my pages with the coComment scripts enabled. But it’s definitely something to keep an eye on…

Stephanie: No problem re the roughness around the edges. One of these days I’ll get around to finishing my little review of Gmail, which, despite all of Google’s money, is still way rough around the edges. (Oh, and thanks for fixing my blog title. Is there a way for me to do that myself? And is there a way to go in and tag all my existing comments?)

By: Stephanie Booth

Stephanie Booth — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:13:58 +0000

Ah, well, as I was writing my previous comment, Nicolas fixed your blog title.

By: Stephanie Booth

Stephanie Booth — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:12:40 +0000

Thanks for the really nice review! I’ve nudged the devs to see if we can fix your blog title (we know about the roughness around our edges and apologize…)

As for sharing your comments with your readers, have you looked at the Blog Box? It’s made precisely for that. You can configure it so that it shows only your comments and then include it in your blog page.

As I see you’re using WordPress, I would recommend the use of two plugins (I’ll be blogging about this on our blog tomorrow morning if I every manage to go to bed tonight): Show coComments for displaying your comments in the sidebar or anywhere else (also exists as a widget) — that would be instead of the Blog Box I just mentioned — and coComment Enhancer for automatic integration into your blog.

Hope this helps, and let me know if you need anything!

By: Armchair Anarchist

Armchair Anarchist — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:35:49 +0000

Actually, nix that request for 1337 training; they’ve got a script generator in the ‘tools’ section. Just what I need, more javascript to slow my page down!

By: Armchair Anarchist

Armchair Anarchist — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:31:08 +0000

Spotted this on Rubel’s Micropersuasion, but wasn’t sure about it, but two recommendations from trusted sources is good enough for me.

If you know what you’re doing, it’s not that difficult to take these RSS feeds and make a little sidebar widget for your WordPress or Movable Type blog that will display all your recent comments around the blogosphere.

So, care to share t3h 1337 h4Xx0r c0d3 5k1llz, Dave? Or can you point me towards somewhere I can learn the trick for myself?

By: Chris Roberson

Chris Roberson — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:20:23 +0000

Okay, I was intrigued when you mentioned it the other day,and now I’m convinced it’s worth a shot. I just installed the Firefox extension, so we’ll see how it works.

Of course, knowing me, now that I’ve gone to the trouble, I’ll never comment on anyone’s blog again…