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Tracking blog conversations

The Hindu dated 31st july'2006 : J.Murali writes on the heading"Tracking the blog conversations"
An interesting aspect of a blog is its potential to generate active conversations through the `Comments' feature. Besides helping a blogger disseminate her ideas with blog entries, the blog's `Comments' feature provides her an opportunity to engage in an active conversation with the readers. In fact, in many popular blogs the `Comments' section present far richer content, when compared to the original entry. If you go through the 'Comments' section of famous technology blogs such as Slashdot and Digg, you will realise it.

Of course, all the comments relating to a blog entry will not appear in a single day — it is a continuous flow, lasting a few days. However, going back to the blog entry time and again to read the latest comments is impractical, especially when one visits several blogs daily.
As such, we need tools for accomplishing this task automatically. This requirement inspired many web enthusiasts and led to the generation of a crop of services called comment trackers. A few such services are detailed here.
http://www. cocomment.com/is an effective comment-tracking tool
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