After the pretty interesting exploration of Comment Aggregation with Mr. Morris, I found it interesting when I saw coComment on Scoble’s blog (and later MyComments in another post).
Since everything’s released as a private beta these days (damn you Google!), I wasn’t expecting much when I dumped my email address into the coComment invitation form. After all, I’m not exactly the kind of person whose email address you’d jump at when you saw it in a list (like Scoble or Dave Winer). Happily, I was wrong. Less than 15 minutes later, I had an invitation code in my inbox (although I didn’t notice it until 45 minutes later).
So I’m signed up, playing around, I’ll let everyone know how it goes. Of course, Geof got my first comment.
One funny thing was the recent blogs “cloud”:
Think he carries some weight?
Mr. Morris?! “That’s my dad!” Actually, I still think of my father as “Major Morris”, so I guess I’m screwed there, huh.
I’ll be curious to see what your experience comes up with, Chris. I’m still just really skeptical of the whole thing.
No “Mr. Morris”? *Salutes* Sir, yes sir! Actually, at first I avoided calling you “Geof” because I always type it wrong. I had a friend in elementary school named Geoff, and for some reason I can never get your name right as a result. How about just making it easy on me and merging “Geof F.” into “Geoff”, eh?
So far, coComment is far from what we’d been invisioning, but with any luck this will take off and just be a stepping stone. Comment Aggregation (and breadcrumbing in general) is going to become more and more of an issue as blogs grow in popularity. There’ll have to be a way to get all this new information organized and catalogued.
The need to comment through the system is a big bummer. Ironicly, the first post I made with it on your blog actually worked, but shows up in coComment with no title or description… I assume it was supposed to pull the page’s title tag, but it doesn’t appear to have. Really not a good first start…