co.mments.com Shutting Down

Bummer. My favorite comment tracking service (co.mments.com) is shutting down within the week. That makes me sad.

I recall that last time I looked around for similar services I didn’t find much to get excited about. Any suggestions?



WordPress 2.7 and Threaded Comments

WordPress 2.7 was announced this week and I’ve been doing upgrades ever since (managing too many blogs!). While there are literally tons of new features in this release, the built-in threaded comments had my attention today.

Next you’ll begin to notice the new features subtly sprinkled through the new interface: the new dashboard that you can

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Desktop Comment Moderation

Want to moderate your WordPress blog comments without having to log into the site? Check out Moderator, a combination WP plugin and Adobe AIR app that streamlines the entire process.

I haven’t tried it out myself (I’m trying to minimize distractions!) but it sure looks like a great idea. Anyone using it? Thoughts or impressions?

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*sigh* Welcome Back rel=nofollow

Back in February, I excitedly announced that I was getting rid of the rel=nofollow stuff on comment links.

April rolled around and I excitedly “joined” the I Follow movement with a spiffy badge.

Towards the end of May, I voiced some concerns about abuse.

A few weeks later in June, I hit the abuse topic some more.

July 1

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Small Adjustment to My "No nofollow" Policy

As mentioned several times, I’m a “do follow” blog. Long story short, I don’t feel that commenters’ links should be marked as “rel=nofollow.”

Until today I have been using the slick DoFollow plugin by Kimmo Suominen. That plugin allows a bit of a time delay before removing the nofollow attribute which is helpful in the

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