Thanks to a comment from Jay Datema (newly appointed Technology Editor for Library Journal who oversees the LJ Techblog) on my post regarding the marginalization of comments in the blogosphere, I found a nifty new service (well, new to me, anyway) called coComment. coComment provides the ability for you to track and view your comments on any other person’s blog in a single place. Registration is free. I’ve already added a new section in my sidebar that shows or tracks comments I’ve made elsewhere.

This service addresses a couple of my complaints about the marginalization of comments in general. I’ve already mentioned that it enables you to keep track of your own comments. It also allows you to insert tags into all of your comments. Pretty cool! And coComment’s development team is working on addressing a third complaint of mine, by developing a way to crawl comments in the blogosphere so that they can be readily indexed and searchable.

I’ll play around with it some more and see about making changes but for now, I think this is a worthwhile service and I recommend it to others to try.