coComment: Not For Me
coComment is a service designed to simplify blog commenting and will help you keep track of the comments and conversations you and others are making on blogs. To use coComment, you just write your comment in the comment field of a blog and click on the coComment bookmarklet (that you’ve already installed) before submitting the comment. And that’s it, comment tracked.
Well, I’m going to shock everyone right now by writing this post, but I’m not on the coComment bandwagon. Although I applaud any company’s efforts to bring out new services to the blogosphere, tracking my comments left ’round the net is not for me. It boils down to this: adding another click to the commenting process does not simplify anything for me. Call me lazy if you want, but one more click is one click too many. It’s bad enough that I have to strain to figure out what random letters are displayed in Word Verification boxes; that I have to fill out my name, email, and site information in order to leave a comment because there is no across-platform standard that everyone is using (like TypeKey, but with universal use); it’s bad enough that I have to (for goodness sakes!) login to leave a comment on people’s personal 100-hits-per-month blog…but now I have to click one more time? It’s not going to happen.
The other aspect of coComment is that it lets you track the comments left on your blog. However, there is a problem with that; from the help section of the coComment website: "…when someone comments on your blog who is a coComment member, their comment will appear in your "Your Conversations" page. If they are not a member, their comment text can not be grabbed, so the comment will be added to your blog but NOT to Your Conversations page."
Obviously, there are more non-members than members, so this is a issue. The logical solution to this problem is, of course, blog integration, and it appears that coComment is moving in this direction, but currently the list of supported blogs is limited to WordPress, TextPattern, Mojira, and Serendipity. According to the help page, they do not know how to integrate coComment into the following services: TypePad, MoveAble Type, Blogger, MSN Spaces, MySpace, flickr, Xanga, and Kaywa. And if you don’t see your blog service listed there, then it isn’t even on their radar.
If you want to use coComment to track your comments you are leaving throughout the net, then have at it, I’m sure you will enjoy that feature; but if you want to use it to track comments left on your blog, coComment just isn’t there yet.
However, all this being said, I wish the coComment team the best of luck as they grow their web 2.0 endevour; just remember: integration, not user interaction!
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Sarah, that is crazy. One click is easy, and in the long term it saves time. I don’t need to keep going back to some blogs which are mainly coComment to reply to my comments.
Sarah: coComment works on MT, WP, Serendipity, TypePad, Blogger, MSN Spaces, MySpace, flickr, Xanga, and Kaywa.
By integrate they been to provide some extra code. The bookmarklet still works.
When it’s integrated, I’d be happy to use it. When it’s seemless and transparent, it will then, and *only then*, be the revolutionary product everyone is saying it is now. I don’t care if I’m the only one in the blogosphere with this opinion, I’m standing by it. And guess what? I’m just clicking the post button…
hi Sarah, we take your words and suggestions and agree that technology shall be transparent. That’s also in our list of goals to score with coComment that just came out few weeks ago and is still in heavy development. As said, your words have been taken into account. Merci!
BlogMad plan on intergrating CoComment
Good on BlogMad!
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Sarah, coComment has since found a way to integrate into blogs using a code to be put into the template. However, they don’t have any way to log non-member’s comments on blogs which is a slight shortcoming..