Brian Kelly has posted about tracking new comments. This is a topic I’ve been wondering about for a while and haven’t been able to come up with an elegant solution. For my own blog, I subscribe to the comments RSS feed and get informed of new comments by email - that’s great, but what about other people’s blogs?
WordPress provides feeds for each blog entry but I’ve not found a good solution to tracking comments on other people’s blogs. I could add the feed to my news reader but then it gets filled up with stale feeds. The solution forums use of sending an email when a new post is added would work well, but that just seems intrusive and frankly not very Web 2.0.
I did just find a site called co.mments which looks interesting. Maybe I’ll try out a couple of techniques to see what works. At least until Google figure out a better interface for time-limited RSS feeds which automatically tidy themselves up.