CoComment = useful comment aggreagator

Commenting on other people's photos and blog posts is fun, but if you truly wish to engage in a dialog with folks, it's a virtually impossible task. Tracking comments RSS on your most frequented blogs is possible, but ultimately if you see the entire web as one gigantic blog like I do, you're out of luck, until CoComment came along last fall:



CoComment is a useful web site which aggregates blog comments onto a single portal. It tracks your comments via a browser plugin. In addition to tracking conversations across multiple web sites, it has tagging capability to allow easy content filtering.

Recommended.

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Digg 2.0 Comment Digging Features: Friend or Foe?

Two weeks ago, my friend Rich Schuster (SML Wiki) sent me a photo of the halloween costume his friend Nathan Sharatt (SML Wiki) has made. I like it, so I faved it on Flickr and dugg it.



Since Digg now added Web 2.0 features, I thought that it would nice to leave a nice comment thanking demonbaby for sharing, since he is a friend of mine.

Digg - Spectacular Bioshock Big Daddy / Little Sister Halloween Costume! [Pics]: User Comment from iamorlando

Just like that, I received a comment from a user named iamorlando posted on 2007-11-01 which says the following:

Dear See-ming,
Thanks for adding to our discussion, also thank you for turning the comments section into our own personal correspondence section.

Yours truly,
Orlando

Digg Stats
iamorlando's comment has +13 diggs on it, for which I am stunned. Conversely, my thank you note has -26 diggs on them, which I am double stunned.

SML Research
To figure out why a user hate me so much, I instructed SML Bio Bot to do some research for me to determine who iamorlando is, and this is what it scooped:
SML Wiki: iamorlando

SML Question to iamorlando
If we cannot even thank our friends for posting to something we thought is brilliant on Digg, then what should we post instead?

SML Ask
Conversely, how reasonable are the Web 2.0 comment digging features on Digg?

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Google News + Comments = Social Journalism

According to the post titled Perspectives about the news from people in the news from the Google News Official Blog, Google News will be allowing reader comments on their stories starting this week.

Comments are restricted to people who are "directly involved with the news," (Deep Jive Interests: Google News To Change Online News As We Know It. Here's Why) but it will certainly be interesting to see how "by adding this feature, [Google News] can help enhance the news experience for readers, testing the hypothesis that... a personal view can sometimes add a whole new dimension to the story." (Google News Blog)

Collaboration activities on the Google domain is not new (see Google Docs Redesign on my blog), but social media applied to news story is definitely an ingenious idea.

Next step: Google Search + Comments would definitely make for some interesting product!