Comments on: Lazy Web Request: Google Reader and comments

By: Brandon Valentine

Brandon Valentine — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:44:39 +0000

I use http://co.mments.com. It mostly works great. Much better than the aforementioned CoComment. You can subscribe to an RSS feed of the threads you’re following and have it show right back up in Google Reader.

By: Joey Beninghove

Joey Beninghove — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:03:37 +0000

@matt,
No, I don’t do that and agree that a more elegant solution is needed. The problem is not every blogging platform provides comments rss in the same way (some not at all). Right now, in the LosTechies pipe, I’m just iterating over LT’s OPML file, and munging the urls to point to each person’s comments feed and then producing one aggregated view of the site’s comments in rss.

I supposed you could attempt to export your OPML from google reader, and do the same kind of thing. But again, you’ll run into the inconsistency between blogging platforms.

CoComment is a good route, but unfortunately not all blog engines support that either.

By: Matt Berther

Matt Berther — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:27:17 +0000

@joey: do you set up a Yahoo Pipe to create a feed for every comment that you post to an external site? That’s the problem I’m trying to solve. mattberther.com already has comments available via an RSS feed (see the RSS 2.0 link directly above your comment).

@phil: I’ll look into it. Thanks!

By: Phil Weber

Phil Weber — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:43:35 +0000

You might give coComment a try: http://www.cocomment.com/

By: Martin Woodward

Martin Woodward — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:39:46 +0000

Hmm, wanted to know a better way of doing this myself - especially as Google Reader does not support the threaded comments thing like other RSS readers do. I guess I’ll have to star this article and keep checking back here to find if anyone has an answer :-)

By: Joey Beninghove

Joey Beninghove — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:38:21 +0000

Over at LosTechies, I used Yahoo Pipes to set up an aggregated RSS feed of all comments posted to any of our blogs at LosTechies. That seems like the best universal way of doing it. Especially in the cases, like Community Server, that don’t provide an OOTB way to have a “master” comments feed.