comment aggregation

i was chatting with a friend today and during the conversation i mentioned something that i later realized would make a good blog post...

i mentioned that i had been using the comment aggregation service co.mments... up until about 2 weeks ago i had no idea what that service was but now i know and i'm finding it very helpful...

essentially it's a way to track comments that you make on blogs and the replies you get all in one place (so that you don't have to go to a bunch of different sites to see if people have responded to your comments and what they've responded with)... it keeps checking those conversations periodically and the ones that have updates rise to the top of the list (so that new material is always easy to find)... also there's an rss feed for new comments in your list of tracked conversations so that you can keep track of them in a feed reader the same way you keep track of sites you enjoy reading... some sites have rss feeds for their own comments but how many individual comment feeds do you really want to subscribe to?

there are some imperfections of course... some sites it just can't figure out how to track (lack of standardization among blogs i guess) and some blogs have the comments for an article on a completely different page than the article itself so that you can't refer back to the original article when you follow co.mments.com link to the comments page... it would also be nice if i could re-read old comments right from the co.mments.com tracking page instead of having to go back to the original (right now you can only see new comments on the co.mments.com tracking page)... other than that though, i'm finding co.mments.com to be a good time saving device for participating in discussions in blog comments...