Netpositive

I just discovered Co.mments and am excited to talk about it. The obvious comparison is another web app with a similar name, Cocomment, which allows users to track the conversations around comments they leave on other blogs. It received a lot of attention last month from the blogosphere, thanks to a now-famous wining and dining of A-list bloggers. That app itself is well-done and useful, I grant.

But Co.mment is even more useful, and just as well executed by lone technologist, Assaf Arkin. Rather than focusing on tracking your own comments, Co.mment is all about tracking any conversation you find interesting. Given how often the comment thread is more interesting than the original post, this has huge benefits.

Assaf’s system takes the comment thread and turns it into its own feed, which you can subscribe to like any blog feed. This unlocks a whole new dimension to blog content, allowing users to filter information at a more granular level. For starters, this suggests that our existing feed readers have outworn their functional usefulness. Why? Because they assume that all subscriptions are equal–conversation subscriptions decrease in importance as the conversation dies down. If this catches on it means a high-level of churn through “disposable” subscriptions.

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