coComment is another organisational tool. This one helps to organise your comments on blogs. When you think about it this is a space where some more organisation would really come in. At the moment there is no way (other than some seriously manic bookmarking) to keep track of your comments on other peoples blogs. You have to manually remember where you have left some words and check back for other peoples thoughts. coComment changes this. It provides a monitoring system for your comments across the web.

It works via a Bookmarklet system like everything else. You need to drag a button to your bookmarks toolbar in Firefox (or Links toolbar in IE, or anywhere in Opera). As you may be aware I don’t normally have the bookmarks toolbar showing and I prefer to bookmark the link and set a keyword (in this case “c”) which I can use for the bookmarklet. However when trying out this service I thought I better give the bookmarks toolbar a go as the bookmarklet is a pretty important part of the service. The idea is that you hit the button just before you submit a comment to a blog. Then you get something that looks like the screenshot.

The key thing in the screenshot is that little box at the bottom. To let you know that the submission of your comment to coComment has been successful you get a little box appearing on the screen with your screenname in it (sgd) and a tick. Then you can send the comment to the original blog site by pressing the standard “Submit Comment” button. That is it. Now you can log on to coComment.com at any time in the future and find a record of that comment. On coComment you get a link back to the blog and you can see your comment,you can also see subsequent comments. But they only show up if the person making the comment used coComment at the time. Which should soon be everyone anyway.

Another word of warning is that it doesn’t work with every blog. They are increasing the number of types that it works with every day, and it now works with all mainstream blogging programs but not some of the more obscure ones. It doesn’t for instance work with Google Blogoscoped (my review). This is what I saw when I tried. But the end result is the comment didn’t make coComment.com. coComment does however work with Flickr. Which is just great. During the writing of this review I have already had someone reply to one of my comments on a popular blog. It really is a great way to keep track of things. Certainly a favourite.

Update // I have added my comments feed to the sidebar of the blog. It only shows up on the front page so not to make some of the post pages too long. It shows my comments and comments related to me.