I've been meaning to keep better track of my conversations out in the wilds of the Blogosphere. There are few tools that let bloggers keep up to speed with their off-site conversations. The three most popular right now are coComment, Co.mments, and Commentful.
After a bit of testing, coComment came out on top. Here's why:
- Better blog integration. A little CSS and javascript, and there's a cool widget in my sidebar that lists all the conversations I'm having elsewhere. You can grab javascript from Co.mments, and an RSS feed from Commentful, but neither of them have built-in CSS like coComment, which lets me tailor it to my hosted blog on Typepad. Sweet.
- Better user interface. I like the on-site user interface of coComment more than the others. It collapses all the comments that aren't near your own, and let's you expand them as you see fit. Co.mments' is decent, and Commentful's is pretty sparse.
And now, I've enable coComment for all my blog posts so you can use it too (thanks to Typepad for this being so dang easy to implement).
Paul Biggs lives in Portland, Oregon where he writes about technology, apps, and gadgets when he can find a spare second.
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