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Thanks Jason, I just looked at ID - looks very close to what I am hoping for! I can't wait to try it out.

cheers!!!

What you'll find with most blogs is that they don't and won't syndicate blog comments... they want the page view$ and additional traffic.

Even though it is a time-sink to browse each post for comments, you do work at IBM, Savio. Your bosses don't have a clue what 99% of their employees are doing anyway. ;-)

Label items you comment on appropriately in your feeds reader (assuming it supports this functionality). There are some Web-based services that address this problem as well.

I can't imagine being able to leave about 50 comments a day without a proper tracking system.

@Russo: Ahh but Big Blue watches and knows all. We have recorded your IBM diss in your permanent record.

@Schestowits: Thanks for the tip. I can't imagine leaving anywhere near 50 comments per day (that's a lot of thinking!) I do however want to get notified of comments that others (friends/colleagues/the enlightened/the evil ones) leave on sites other than their blog or mine.

If people were able to comment using OpenIDs, and then these were sensibly indexed (I'm looking at you Google!) that would be a powerful cross-group mechanism for tracking comments.

Maybe that's what you're looking for : http://fav.or.it/

Here is an article about it : http://uk.techcrunch.com/2007/10/02/is-favorit-a-digg-killer/

Marc.

I use http://co.mments.com/ to keep track of comments on blogs and whatnot. It works pretty well, for most blogs. Ummmm....I'm not sure if it works for Infoworld, though :-/

For Slashdot, I just get email replies of those responding to my comments. I've never really thought of keeping track of other peoples' comments not related to replies to my messages, though.

The problem is the diversified nature of the Internet. OpenID could be a solution, but people still naturally want to keep their identities separate, too. I want to be insightful on Slashdot, but a snarky jerk on say a different blog. Do I or don't I want my true character revealed through an online mashup of my online personalities?

Pete, great points - so maybe there should be a way for you to 'open' up your slashdot comments via some system that I could consume (for eg). You should have the ability to restrict the comments from your alternative identity (used for snarky comments) from being 'subscribed to' by people that want to know "what is Pete saying on the Net"?

Essentially, each person would classify a subset of their online identities to represent: "sure, I said this and stand behind it". Then, I would want to be made aware of comments that were made by one of these 'public-and-attributable' ids of my friends, colleagues, etc.

Next, I want those flying cars!

Hi Marc, that is *almost* what I'm looking for. I want it extended to sites/blogs that I wouldn't follow or know about.

I care about selecting people whose opinions I want to be made aware of. Then, if these people post their opinions on the web, I want to know.

Easy breezy? ;-)