3. So it seems you’re saying it will track comments by people who don’t use CoComment…so is this now inline with co.mments and Commentful?

So if a non-CoComment user left a comment on a blog I’m tracking, CoComment would pick up this post, but only if the blog is “CoCo-friendly”. So you are solving the problem by taking away the effort from the commenter (ie. they don’t have to have an account with CoComment), this is great, but now it seems you have shifted the responsibility to the blog being commented on.

Is this correct?

Or will it still track comments by both CoComment and non-CoComment users even if the blog being commented on doesn’t have the “intergration” code (just like co.mments and Commentful)…is the “integration” code just a more formal method of making sure the data is picked up with less errors.

1. Can you leave comments on all blog platforms using CoComments?

2. Can the re-syndication widget just show your comments?

3. Does it track a new comments if they were not made by a CoCommentor?

Here are the answers:

1. You can indeed leave comments on all platforms, but I suspect you mean “record” comments from all platforms. This will IMHO never be possible for ANY comment-tracking system as long as a comment microformat has not been agreed upon and widely implemented: http://microformats.org/wiki/comment-problem

2. Yes, it can — look on http://climbtothestars.org

3. Yes, it does if the blog was made “coCo-friendly”: http://cocomment.com/integrate . And if I’m not mistaken, more “non-user” tracking power is to come in a few weeks time.

I like the idea of trackback for comments. Linking is too much work. I’m thinking something along those lines, but it will take a while.

You’re right about hooking up with as many blog platforms as possible. A good service just works, and doesn’t bother users with the details.

So my challenge is to make co.mments work across as many blogs as possible.

I agree that it must be a pull system, but push is OK if you want to CC: to people that don’t yet know they care

…at the moment the pull system is just not complete enough…it will soon I believe, as the comments issue is in vogue at the moment.

As far as I know, (not sure if things have changed) is:

1. Can you leave comments on all blog platforms using CoComments?

2. Can the re-syndication widget just show your comments?

3. Does it track a new comments if they were not made by a CoCommentor?

This is the major problem, I want to see all comments on a blog post, not just the ones made by CoCommentors.

How are you going to get the whole blogosphere to register with CoComments, it’s just not going to happen, therefore it’s limited.

I’m sure the idea is to remedy this and track comments made by people even if they don’t use CoComments (comment crawling)…this is what co.mments tries to do.

I understand CoComments has so many other great social features, but for me the fundamentals have to be in place…and that is a way to track all comments using one service like CoComments.

The only remaining issue for co.mments (and CoComments) is to hook up with as many blog platforms to enable this to happen…backend stuff the user doesn’t need to know about.

Anyway things may have changed since I last looked, here is my post from way back, CoComments: comments haven
…and another, Managing and tracking comments.

As a blogger, my problem is to get my readers to sign up with coComments so that (a) they know when I reply to them and (b) I know when they reply to me. I’m not sure what the best way to do this is.

Like yourself, I to get an email notification one someone leaves a comment on my blog…you are saying that you respond to them from your email client and at the same time this publishes your comment in your blog post.

I’ve heard about publishing a blog post via an email, but not publishing a blog post comment via email.

If that person then emails a comment back to you, will that also publish a new comment in the blog…or do only you have the power to do that

…actually how do you do it anyway?

Ironically I’m going to email this to you because I’m not sure if you grabbed the RSS post comment feed…I do wish I had “tick this box if you want to be notified by email of any new comments on this blog post”.
As I said I’ve only got this email notification of new comments, not sure how I can get it to happen for others who leave comments…and forget about plugins, my bloghost is strict on these.