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Are you a serious commenter? Do you keep a conversation with a regular blogger? Do you comment only because it’s a must?
We treat ourselves differently and we only comment as we pleased but even so, a comment is what keeps us blogging, linking to other blogs, leaving our URL links to comments because everyone wants an audience. We promote our own blog, don’t we all?
Introducing, coComment. If you have blogs, photo sharing services, news sites, you name it: more and more sites let readers comment on what they read and see.
I’ve been using coComment since I started with my wp.com and I have been so excited sharing this to many of you. I sometimes think that a conversation is one of the best tool to know each other as a blogger, as a person or an individual. I always want to track all my comments on many blogs so I can go back to them and leave my reply. I can guarantee that you may not lose anyone in your comment box. At the same time, it tracks your comments very fast. As a result, it creates a great conversation with fellow coCommenter in respond to what you wrote.
I love coComment. It’s the real power of blogging. And I want you to participate, it’s free so no harrassment included. When you visit a supported blog service, coComment ‘magically’ adds a button into the blog webpage. When you submit your comment, coComment automatically keeps a copy of it in one place. Gorgeous!
Thanks to all of you who leave your comments here, special mention to Jack Yan for keeping me up at the slot as one of the top HOT coCommenter. So start pimping your blog and install coComment in your browser.
*coComment supports the following blogging tools: 
Time After Time
by: Erin Bode
cool tip…thanks for sharing K. I’ll check it out sometime soon
I’m sure you gonna have fun using them, C. Just play with it and let me know okidox?
K, how does it actually work?
I’m kinda think today inunderstanding things… sorry.. nabobobo ako
Funny that’s the same question when I first saw the service. I played along with it. If you are using Firefox, it’s very easy. Download it, Register your account, Log-in to coComment, and you will see a blue “CO” (means you’re logged-in) icon at the right-bottom corner of your browser. Then go to your blog, try replying to any comments and right next to your “send” comment, you’ll see a coCo button next to it. Fill a tag name in that box that best describes your entry. Then click “send”. If you want to see what’s in that CO box, click it and fill in what’s missing.
Arghhh I think I did gave you more headache din’t I?
Thanks for the info! I’ve seen the coComment logo around in various places, however I’ve never really known what it was for until now. I’ll probably give it a spin
Hi Max, I thought about that at first too, I was like what are these people doing? But when I started using it, it’s like making a long thread on all of your comments and it becomes a conversation. Jack Yan is the most generous user of the coComment. It’s like receiving a box full of chocolates via your own comment box.
Thank you for the shout-out, K! I truly appreciate it.
Hi Jack my friend, I am expecting you to share your expertise on this. It was you who did help me with the ranking. I can’t even call it self-promotion of blogs but I do however enjoy it, a matter of fact this is how you found my blog.
Duke, I made a comment at this post discussing what coComment does. I hope that might help a bit.
Thanks, Jack Yan, you truly are “The Persuader”. Ladies and Gents, Jack Yan will keep you smiling.
ahhh okaaay. i’ll check this out soon. thanks!
Great, dez. I know it’s pretty easy for you. But guess what, everytime I’m using my coCo on your blog, I find it a bit funny everytime I write the title of your blog… ang haba kasi
I just started using it, after seeing Jack yan use it. I’m still seeing how it works, it looks pretty useful, so I’ll keep it I think. It is also effortless to use, has a nifty Firefox extension.
Thanks for sharing Jack, since most of my friends here are using the blogger, I hope they can catch on with the usage of the coComment. By the way, welcome to my blog.
Yeah, how does it actually work? I went in.. but got lost. And if i still don’t get it after you explaining the second time, i give up. I’m like that. Never trying hard. Bleargh. Am i complaining? Don’t frown at me.
Bwahaha Asha, there’s no obligation there. I thought if you have no time doing nothing and or often spend time browsing around like me, this is for you. I find it hard tho to enable my coCo on blogger since most of the comment box appeared to be a “pop-up” type, I hardly able to really use it with others. Infact, I use it the hard way and I’m sure I keep all my comments from your blog via this service. Read on the #4 comments I made for Duke or #9 made by Jack Yan. If its not up to your par, forget it cuz life is already complicated, I don’t want you to be obligated and me being responsible if you screw it up.
is it like halo scan dahling or ym? teach me naman…
Speaking of Haloscan, cocomment won’t work on it. No it’s different. It doesn’t need to be installed in your BLOG, it magically added a button in your comment box like a little angel next to the “send” button helplessly begging for a chicharon saying “feed me, feed me”.
As for me, I still find people leaving comments on my OLD posts and I can easily reply to them because of coComment, it tracks down all your incoming (or whoever responded) to one of your old posts. So now you wonder why I reply to each one of you? Some people would say I’m nuts.
K, it’s good manners and courtesy to reply, and I am grateful for your continuing to do that! It’s what makes this place so welcoming.
that I found your blog through coComment—so for blog owners who are reading this, it has the potential to boost traffic.
It is true (in your reply at no.
Now that’s a nice compliment from you Jack. I just realized you’ve been so nice to this blog and so many of coCommenters find you very acommodating. You respond very positively to every comments and thus, “we” do the same.
I believe that if you treat an individual as if they were what they ought to be and could be, they will become what they ought to be and could be.
Hmmm I’m all ears! Looks interesting and will try that. Thanks for sharing this K!
Hey Charles, its not too late to join, you’ll enjoy it I’m sure.
ohh…. ah…. cant get ovr that chicharon huh? have munich again padalhan kita u like? lol
You are now associated with Chicharon from now on. Like Duke, she reminds me of that “crack”. Or everytime I hear UKAY-UKAY, Ms Dez comes to mind, she makes me laugh with that
I think it’s the “Kababawan” side of me, mababaw lang kung baga. 
Hey, did you ever thought of migrating to Wordpress. It’s easy to transfer your posts & comments, however, you might not be able to enjoy the luxury of free javascripts & customization, but just want to let you know that I see your love of writing, they are fun.
Cocomment is just another plug-in that drain load time in MY opinion. It also seems a little buggy.
K
Aww, we have the same initial “K”.
I understand, that’s another drawback with the coCo, also I find it hard with the blogger’s/Haloscan commenting POP-ups. Despite of, I think that it becomes part of my daily routine - it really is rather fun to use to track all my comments no matter where you write them. Then again, this service may be useful if everyone else is doing it, so I’m spreading the word for people who are interested.
Appreciate your feedback. Thanks, K.
Hello Knoiz,
Thanks for sharing, I bookmarked the link muna and will explore later if time permits. By the way, alam kong maraming akong pagkukulang sa yo lately. I’d like to make amend thru sending you a card from Paris and Amsterdam, I therefore need your home addy. Paki email mo nalang sa akin, okay?
PS. It’s gonna be cool if you try the coComment.
I, like many other people have problems keeping track of all the webpages I’d like to hop back to sometimes. I don’t have enough browser bar space and I never use my bookmarks folder in FF. I’m just starting to get around to using RSS feeds, but in the meantime, coCo seems like a cool way to keep track of everything.
“I don’t have enough browser bar space and I never use my bookmarks folder in FF.”
I can use a link, so maybe we can trade links Max.
But true, coComment is the easy way to track your comments. One way or another, it let us exchange words and make a conversation with anyone, that’s why you see me keep coming back. 
K, you wrote, ‘I believe that if you treat an individual as if they were what they ought to be and could be, they will become what they ought to be and could be.’
That is so true. The Golden Rule applies in every culture, and is something that ties us all together. It’s also the foundation of karma. You are a very wise man.
The two Ks got a little confusing there in those three messages!
Thanks, Jack. I think I sounded too deep, huh? As human beings, we always crave to be appreciated. There is no such investment we can make which will pay us so well other than that. My best effort is to at least scatter sunshine and good cheer where ever I may be. As water is to a flower, so is praise to the heart of another.
Yeah, it made me confused after reading the other “K’s” comment, I was like, wait a minute, I didn’t wrote that.
Oh… that explains how you’re able to insert your replies to respective comments…
I like it because it feels more interactive!
*bows* Thank you for the tip.
Exactomento, Ms Pari - replying to a comment is something ‘obligatory’ to my blogging. Perhaps the title of this blog speaks for itself. I chose to do these cuz I believe it is the recipe of having a personal blog about life. It’s like how you cook. I put garnish with smiles and serve with unselfishness and cheerfulness.
I really appreciate your writing back to me and to everyone. May good karma go to you, K!
The other K confused me as well. I thought, ‘How come K doesn’t like coComment any more?’ It really got me till I read your response.
I might crack 2,000 comments today or tomorrow.
Jack, I will always keep coComment for as long as its FREE or if I’m still blogging or if I still have friends like you supporting this blog.
There’s too many initial to pick, I thought I’m the only one using it. I even got confused cuz another Jack made a comment right after you until I clicked on the link.
so you’re one of the top coComment(ers)! naks! iba talaga pag sikat!
idol!
Heh! It was for the sake of keeping my comments. Lagalag kasi ako sa blogosphere. I leave comments to posts that I find interesting, self-promotion kung baga. And I gain friends. Look at that, it’s fun leaving comments and become a conversation such as this. I didn’t realize nga I was on the TOP na pala. It’s interesting to meet people really.
Jack and K,
thanks for the detailed explanation. Now I get it
Will check it out later
Goodluck Duke!
Actually I only use coCo when I’m at home and I re-post it na lang pag uwi. Let me know if it’s working with you.
Hi K…thanks for the passing by my site, even if it was accidental! I do pop on yours now and again, and yes, it’s via Consuela, Rho, and J’s blog. Okie dokie…hope to see you pop up again! Have a good weekend!
Hi MnM,
nice name. That’s great, you’re just ‘two blocks’ away from me, lez go have some coffee, meet me at “Blogger That Speaks”page.
Thanks for the visit.
Glad I could help, Duke!
K, I picked up your blog through cocomments. The tag drew my attention in the tag cloud. I’ve had an account on cocoment for a while, but for some reason the log in would not work until today. So I finally get to test it with some other people who use cocomment. Thanks for the post and the highlight in cocomment to your blog.
hi John, Thanks for visiting. I came a little late in promoting coComment to this blog prematurely. And you’re right, there were several usability issues of the service before, like it doesn’t work everywhere for you, it’s the lack of instructions. I too, had a hard time using it the first few months where bookmarklet feature is concerned. I sometimes forget to hit the coComment befofre posting my comment. Since a browser plugin/extension was created, I think it’s working well. Thanks John.
K, a user called Bostonmarketing apparently posted a comment here, according to coCo, but I can’t see his post here, or on another blog he posted to. I don’t think it’s your blog, but maybe how he’s posting? John, if you’re reading, can you check if you have everything done correctly?
I got it Jack, the comment was held for moderation, I don’t know why - must be my “clicking” syndrome as I normally would click through my Dashboard and tick an empty box and enabled the wrong button. My bad.
Not a biggie at all. He seemed to be a new user and I just wanted to make sure he was getting the maximum benefits from coCo. Glad to see everyone’s here.
Good morning to you, Jack. I think their gettting the message. I’m glad some have already been using it.
I hope all is well with you.
Good afternoon, K. I didn’t see your post no. 36 till I spotted it in coComment just now. I met the other Jack through coComment and posted there. It’s unusual to find someone with this name who is aged between, say, 18 and 35. You usually find Jacks who are either WWII veterans or little kids.
I’ll always support your blog, for as long as I am blogging as a hobby! You make it a welcome and enjoyable place to be.
“You usually find Jacks who are either WWII veterans or little kids.”
I think it is associated with the comedy movie of Robin Williams, “Jack”. a 10-year-old boy “trapped” inside of a 40-year-old man’s body (it could be me :lol:). I find him really admirable as he can portray a wide range of character.
Like many of us in this blog, I’m sure you can’t tell how old I am, can you?
K, thanks for being so supportive, its good to see cocomment working in action. I see that additional comments were added in my cocomment over night. But of course not everyone’s on the blog, as some people are not using cocomment.
I had an idea; I noticed that we have different usernames in cocomment than on the blog. Mine is bostonmarketing rather than John as I referenced on this blog. I am sure that the majority of people will pick up comments when they return to cocomment. But I was thinking wouldn’t it be great if cocomment allowed you to also direct a comment to a particular user.
Now you might say, well that’s email. It is, but the idea behind cocomment is facilitating better interaction. Unless cocomment already has a feature where any updates to a comment discussion is emailed to a user. Have not seen that. However, I think it would be good if other users could highlight other users in particular, and cocomment would put emphasis on that message beyond the other comments its tracking for the day.
I know you have a lot of conversations in cocomment would that help with you tracking conversations?
Hey, I suppose a quick way is to tag conversations with the name of the person you are chatting with.
And Jack, everything seems to be working well here and on the blog. Can you help me more with your question about my text not appearing somewhere?
Nice input there, John. I signed up on CoComment just to experiment on how it is gonna help me. It’s for the reason of not having an easy way to keep track of what I said and where I leave comments on various blogs. While coCommenters are also notified so as the conversation continues, you do not have to go back to the original post to find the latest comment.
However, the core idea is a great one, and I would very much like to view all of my comments, and other bloggers’ comments, on one centralized page. I understand there are several pros and cons behind the service but using coComment isn’t a bad thing. The more comments you have, the more you gain friends & the more people encouraged to respond to what readers actually say about your posts.
I think it works for the majority of bloggers with unknown blogs like mine but to live out my urge to be part of the conversation on other people’s blog, by leaving comments. If your blog is in the center of gravity, people still leave comments to your blog so I don’t think you have an option there as to whether you want your comments published in one placed.
OMG, I don’t know if I’m saying it right, correct me if I’m wrong. Paging Jack Yan.
John, earlier, your post initially only appeared in coComment because K hadn’t approved it here. K eventually remedied that so your post appears above as you had intended.
Prior to that approval, there were three consecutive posts you made which did not get to the blogs you had commented on, and appeared only in coComment, when I checked on your list. I was worried that there was a set-up glitch.
It appears all is well now, if the above postings are an indication, so don’t worry.
Apologies on the comment MODERATION setup. Since I have been getting spams every each an hour, I tried enabling the first time commenter to be put on moderation. However, moderating comments is a pain in the behind for me as I do not wish to be logging-in like every minute just to check on the comment inbox waiting to be approved.
All is back to normal now, I still have my Akismet plugin on to catch any possible spams. It will never really go away, I’m sure.
John, a few folks do tag their conversations with the person’s name, so your technique would be perfectly acceptable. I really swear by the service: it makes life a lot easier and I can readily locate dialogues that I have participated in.
I actually haven’t tried that tagging on person’s name. I think that’s a great idea since many coCommenter nowadays really do check on who’s placing on TOP of the list and who’s not. I’m sure there will always be negative criticism if you’re unexpectedly getting the highest number of comments.
As for me, I’m just having fun really, besides its free.
On message no. 54, John, I meant there were two consecutive posts—at Paul’s site and here. At Paul’s site, your comment was held for approval, too, so (24 hours ago) it looked like it hadn’t got through. (It is through now.) Anyway, it’s all a moot point as we’ve worked out that all is well with your set-up.
That’s another problem Jack, sometimes I doubled the posting on coComment by just refreshing my browser in getting rid of the ‘cookies’. I still do use the hard way of clicking the bookmarklet by ignoring the magical button next to the “send” button of the comment box.
I think moderation is important, K, so I vote to leave it on. You just never know what can get through.
I know Chrono Cracker did get criticism for having his own name as a tag, but I have seen a few people use my name.
Like you, K, I use the bookmarklet. That way, if a post I make is not worthy of being logged, I don’t use coCo.
You’re right, just today a spam can still get through and Akismet failed to caught the sucker.
I might do the moderation once from now on then. 
Hi K, thanks so much, I think you are right cocomment is a great service. Till this point in time I was using del.icio.us. that’s a great tagging system. However I think cocomment is easier to use for tracking comments.
Jack, ah that makes sense I think by the time I’d returned to the blog K had already posted my comments.
Talking of comment moderation, integrating catchpa into a blog is one of the best ways to cut down on comment spam. I’ve done this on my personal blog and my work blog. comment spam disappeared on my work blog. And now I only get one or two on my personal blog..
That’s a nice plugin John. Apparently my wp.com is not customizable so there’s no way I can make use of the catchpa plugin. However, Akismet Spam plugin has already been installed in all wp.com platform so I’m pretty sure it’s working well in this blog. Thanks for the input.
Ah, forgot to use the cocomment booklet, I think I will switch to firefox!
John I find coComment work easier on Firefox. Like you, I do prefer the bookmarklet than the ‘buttonize’ box on comments. Play along with it.
Without the firefox extension I don’t know if it would be worth it really.
There are plenty of other things like del.ic.ious that let you tag if you can be bothered with the whole bookmarklet thing but most of the time its just a few clicks too far. I’ve got the Del.ic.ious bookmarklet on my Firebox toolbar and its *still* too much work to bother with!
Especially since you can’t really get away with just having no tags like you can with coComment.
I still consider coCo as "too much" everytime I reply to comments. There are times that it isn't working so it forced me to use the bookmarklet. But it's always FUN whenever I reply or post comments,same thing like leaving your url links to every blog. It's more personalized than a gimmick really, at least for me.Thanks Karl. I'm now using my name for the cocomment tags, try it.
John, I decided to use moderation, after a few readers felt that captcha was preventing feedback. They may have been right, as I have noticed my comment count go up. But that could simply be to do with my blog becoming more popular.
Jack, I tried enabling my moderation on comments however I find it a little confusing to approved each comments since Akismet also caught spam comments. I almost got few comments deleted before just because I hit the DELETE ALL option that goes into the Spam comments. I don’t know, I just think I’m ok without the moderation.
Thanks for swinging by the site.
I hadn’t heard of coCommenting before and I’m giving it a try after reading about it here.
Stop by again.
You’re welcome mick. I also check on the forum at wp.com once in a while and see what people are up to and I learn a bit of this and that related to themes and other things to improve our blogging.
That’s good, keep leaving comments to any blog, if you like commenting and use the free service. It’s a very nifty service.
I think you’re OK without moderation, K, because of Akismet. I was just saying that for me, Blogger has no way to prevent spam and I need moderation. It doesn’t take long for spammers and spambots to find a vulnerable, open blog.
Believe it or not, my spams are mostly sex-related stuff. Remember my old posts regarding spams & penis enlargement? It never goes away. The latest wp.com spams caught by Akismet were mostly from the hottmail(s) with an “s” address.
K, I was just thinking what happens if you forget to use the bookmark, and you are using i.e. I wonder if there should be a way in cocomment to go back and add a comment listing in cocomment without re-entering the text?
Ah, I forgot again, this a great example of adding later in cocomment.
I usually highligthened my comments before I click on the coCo bookmarklet then filling the Tags. Now, I’m actually not bothered on tags, since I simply follow what you said, I put my name into the tag box, hassle-free.
Yes, John: what you do is do a Control-A of your text, then use the bookmarklet. The pop-up window that comes up (where you fill in your tags) has an ‘Add’ button instead of the usual ‘OK’. Just click ‘Add’ and it will get added to coComment. You can then cancel the post on the blog itself.
Sorry, just to be clear, I mean that you enter your text in the blog comment box first, then do the Control-A, then click the bookmarklet, etc.
That’s right Jack. I kind of using the bookmarklet now since it always give me a “you are not signed in at coComment” whenever I use the button next to the send comment. It doesn’t go smoothly thru my conversation lists. There must be something wrong with the plugin since I always encounter the same problem before.
Jack, do you always have to use control-A? I was not using control-A and my text was transferred into cocomment anyway.
Ah, I just tried that with this post, and the window popped up automatically, ha ha, before I the window was not appearing and I had to click on the cocomment button below. (it appears when you click on the bookmarklet.)
That’s cool, thanks, it is a lot easier as I now know that cocomment has captured the comment.
Sorry K, it appears that when select control-A and try to click the say it button on this blog, the text is transferred to cocomment but does not save within the blog.
That’s right. Since you have already installed the plugin in your browser, the coCo button would appear automatically next to the Send Comment button to make a comment. What I’m doing is (I know its kind of a hassle), before you actually write a comment, (while already logged-in to coCo) refresh your browser and press the STOP just before the the coCo box appear next to the Send Comment. Then after sending your comment highlight them and use the bookmarklet.
It always happen to me many times, it says comment has been sent to coCo but not actually sending the comments to a blog. If it happens, I’ll follow the old ways, as Jack explained. Or maybe try not to log-in to coComment first so you won’t be bugged off by the coCo button appearing on the send comment.