CoComment Firefox Extension: Way Cool!

(UPDATE MAY 10: This article was originally posted on April 30. Sadly, since then I've had to uninstall my CoComment extension. Here's why.)

I've written before about how I wish blog comments were easier to follow. Also, in February, I mentioned a promising comment-tracking tool called CoComment -- which I thought was cool, but at the time not sufficient for my needs.

Since then, CoComment has continued forging ahead. Recently they made a key improvement which may represent a "tipping point" in comment tracking -- well, at least for me, anyway. This is the just-release CoComment Firefox extension.

I've just installed it, and am starting to experiment with it. See my Contentious posting for more on that.

...Stay tuned, more on this later.

(Thanks to Easton Ellsworth for the tip on this new tool.)

Comments

[Easton Ellsworth]

You're welcome, Amy. I'm either missing something or I'm justifiably zealous about the gem-like quality of cocomment. I've found that I even feel more like commenting when I know that my comment will automatically be stored and follow-ups tracked (provided the follow-upper also uses cocomment - although they are working on eliminating that hurdle).

My last post about the new cocomment Firefox extension got more comments at it than any other post on my blog in all my six-plus months of blogging, and I think a big reason for that was that most of the commenters had cocomment and so they were getting these instant updates on the conversation. A naysayer thinks, "Well, why not just take that offline and do it through email?" I say, why not put it out there for everybody to see?

Of course, eventually I'll want cocomment to allow me to search through my comments when I've made a few thousand of them ... I'd better stop now before I start ranting about all the nifty things I wish it could do already!

[annette]

Amy - thanks so much for this link...I am utterly scatterbrained about where I leave comments and I end up wasting lots of time trawling though my regular reads to make sure I'm not missing anything. This is a fantastic time saver so thanks for the heads up!

[Amy Gahran]

Thanks Annette -- but after all, the reason why I reposted this item on May 10 is because the Firefox extension for CoComment ended up NOT working for me in its present form.

Of course, that may be due to some unique oddities of my own system configuration. But often new extensions are buggy -- and CoComment is tacking a very complex technical challenge.

So please feel free to try CoComment -- but if Firefox starts malfunctioning on you, be aware that in my case I found their current extension to be the cause.

- Amy Gahran

[annette]

mmm I should have listened to you Amy - I had to uninstall the firefox extension because it was indeed preventing me from using the browser properly ... not being a tech person - isn't this something Firefox should sort out before they suggest you install?