Ben Michael Ward is a Web Developer in San Francisco.

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I’m still trying to suss out a reliable, CMS independent way of tracking the comments I’ve made. It’s a step back in terms of automation, but using a Delicious tag seems functional at least – and it lends itself a quick and dirty Bookmarklet too.

I’ve not integrated any feeds into the site yet, and won’t have time to for a little bit, but if you want to see what’s got me talking, you can find it tagged with @commented-on.

Edit: The bookmarklet I speak of is a simple modification of the standard Delicious “Add to Delcious” affair, and looks like this:

javascript:location.href='http://del.icio.us/USERNAME?v=3&url='
  + encodeURIComponent(location.href)
  + '&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)
  + '&tags=@commented-on'

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3 Responses to “Follow me…”

  1. Comment by gareth

    December 11th, 2005 at 11:44 pm

    Excellent idea. I’d briefly thought about the problem and promptly forgotten about it until I came across your solution. Thanks. I’ve posted about it too – I can see a couple of interesting apps if a few people started using it.

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  2. Comment by Comment this // eightface

    February 14th, 2006 at 7:42 pm

    [...] I’ve been making an effort to participate more in conversations on other weblogs over the last few months, and can attest that they’re hard to keep track of. Zach told me he’d been using del.icio.us to keep track of his comments and pointed me towards two posts offering a few more details. Basically, it comes down to tagging anything you comment on with @commented-on. [...]

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  3. Comment by Comment this // eightface

    February 15th, 2006 at 12:27 am

    [...] I’ve been making an effort to participate more in conversations on other weblogs over the last few months, and can attest that they’re hard to keep track of. Zach told me he’d been using del.icio.us to keep track of his comments and pointed me towards two posts offering a few more details. Basically, it comes down to tagging anything you comment on with @commented-on (see mine). [...]

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