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Shawn Smith

I <3 WJ's comment notifications, how can I do it in Wordpress

I really like how when I comment on a blog post, thread, group or do just about anything, when someone responds to me in any way, I get an email. It's great!

I've seen this a few times on Wordpress (sign up for comment updates).

Does anyone know the comment follow-up plugin for Wordpress? Please point me in the right direction.

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Yoni Greenbaum Comment by Yoni Greenbaum on February 8, 2008 at 9:37am
Interestingly enough, I'm encountering more "professional" blogging types using http://disqus.com/. Anyone have any experience.
John Thompson Comment by John Thompson on February 5, 2008 at 12:56pm
Good plan. Best wishes for the wedding btw - hope it all goes smoothly and look forward to seeing the pics!
Kevin Anderson Comment by Kevin Anderson on February 5, 2008 at 12:06pm
John, there are also some projects to make 'kharma data' and identity portable as well as attention data. These are pre-1.0 specs and not yet agreed upon but some interesting spaces to watch.

Let's grab a pint next time you're in London, and after my wedding. T-8 days until W-day.
John Thompson Comment by John Thompson on February 5, 2008 at 8:23am
Ah, yes, I think I might have got my wires crossed with these guys - http://www.intensedebate.com/. It is an interesting idea giving commenters 'ownership' of their comments though.

This is the pitch: "It allows a user to take their identity, reputation, and comments with them whenever they visit a site using our system (whether it be a newspaper or blog). Users can also follow the comments their friends make through an RSS feed."

I know as a reader, I am always interested in who a commenter is, before I can really trust in, and value, their comment. Inevitably one also makes judgments based on the company they keep in social networking situations and also what they may write elsewhere.

Systems that effectively hide the commenter's identity suck bigtime and usually make me think they are all made up in-house (a bit like readers' letters in the good 'ole days of print).

Thanks for the feedback though. Very interesting and informative.
Kevin Anderson Comment by Kevin Anderson on February 5, 2008 at 8:01am
John, I don't believe you have to outsource commenting to CoComment. They actually are a comment tracking layer on top of blogging platforms.

Regarding your question about comment outstourcing, there are folks who will manage your comments and moderate them ala Topix or pick any number of moderation companies. I'm not a big fan of that.

Then there are commenting/community platform solutions like Pluck (disclosure, the Guardian will be using Pluck to power our community platform). We will continue to manage our comments and community, but Pluck will be the third party technology provider. I am much more supportive of this type of outsourcing.

The fact is that few media companies have good technical development chops.

Apart from outsourcing, some companies have chosen to embrace open source options, like Morris Digital. I think that's a very good option, as I blogged on http://strange.corante.com
last week.
John Thompson Comment by John Thompson on February 5, 2008 at 6:20am
Outsourcing comments by using services such as CoComment is an interesting idea, particularly if you are suffering from a lot of comment spam. On Journalism.co.uk (before we replaced our CMS), we used to use Haloscan, but occasionally comments would not appear.

Now that our comments system is hosted on our own server, it's as reliable as the website is. But fewer people comment, because the system is not as user-friendly.

What do other people think about outsourcing comments? Some of these services don't just manage your comments, but create a community around them, allowing people to join the conversation without necessarily arriving at your website first.
Kevin Anderson Comment by Kevin Anderson on February 5, 2008 at 4:17am
You could also use CoComment, which is platform independent. Users can follow any of the posts that they comment on.
Shawn Smith Comment by Shawn Smith on January 31, 2008 at 6:15am
Thanks Yoni! - does this let you subscribe to comments of just one post? I have a subscribe solution for all comments. I'll check this out.
Yoni Greenbaum Comment by Yoni Greenbaum on January 30, 2008 at 4:46pm
try:

Subscribe to comments
http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/

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