Comments on: Using Google Reader SI to Keep Track of Your Own Blogosphere Comments

By: yIKatie

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By: ghostlightning

ghostlightning — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:49:19 +0000

Use backtype: http://www.backtype.com/ then follow yourself.

I do think that your comments do constitute ‘noise’ (on GRSI) and you can share things on GRSI of broader interest. People who follow you there are more likely to be subscribers of your blog anyway, so no need to share your posts.

I hope this helps.

By: Sorrow-kun

Sorrow-kun — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:35:44 +0000

@lelangir
Ah, but it’s not noise to me. Articles that are worth commenting on are articles that I feel are worth reading and, better yet, worth discussing. But I guess the point of this isn’t so much that the comments are shared as it is that they’re centralized and come with a feed. The “sharing” component of it is like an optional “bonus” (or bane depending on how you see it). People who don’t want to add their comment items to the followable “shared items” feed don’t have to. If they make their “comments” folder public, then practically their items are shared, but their regular shared items are disentangled from their comments shared items. As for readers who prefer people to keep these items disentangled… I’m not sure. We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it, but as it stands now, I rather think the prerogative lies with the person who does the sharing, not the person who is being shared to.

@Kiri
I use starred posts for other purposes. My starred posts are articles that I consider to be important. I guess starring items does achieve essentially the same thing, and, if you use tags in the same way as I’ve proposed here, there’s not a huge amount of functional difference, as the result, ie, a centralized page listing places where you’ve commented that has a feed, is (almost) the same. There are a couple of differences. You can’t star a post in Google Reader from the post itself, but you can note it (see step 4). Also, you can’t reference your specific comment, only the page that it’s on.

@gaguri
Well, I’ve looked at this basically from the point of view of features that are available on an internet forum, and the majority of them make it pretty easy to look back at one’s own and others’ posts (and topics). This option isn’t so straightforward on the blogosphere. My proposal is a way to do it for people who want that option, in a way that is reliable and not too difficult (…and can be shared readily).

By: gaguri

gaguri — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:16:50 +0000

I don’t even keep track of blog posts that I actually think are excellent (unless it’s something I really REALLY want to link back as a reference for my future post…) so keeping tack of my half-assed comments (vast majority of them being…not worth of publically sharing tbh) doesn’t seem like a very appealing idea to me personally…

By: Kiri

Kiri — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:14:46 +0000

You could always just star posts in your Google Reader that you’ve commented on…

By: lelangir

lelangir — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:56:24 +0000

no offense or anything but your sharing your comments is realllly annoying on GRSI. so much noise. then again I can’t say much… >.<

By: Sorrow-kun

Sorrow-kun — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:01:23 +0000

@usagijen
Ah, damn, I feel like a bit of an ass now because I didn’t realize the idea has already been proposed. Well, maybe I can claim that this is the first practical implementation of it… (That is, until someone inevitably shows me otherwise).

I did actually read your article a long time ago but didn’t give much thought to the “breadcrumbing” concept at the time, since I was still very much learning the basics of Google Reader. It wasn’t until a few months ago (Feb actually) that the method for doing this crystallized, so I’ll just say that your article probably subconsciously inspired me.

Will do. Part of the reason I wrote this article is because I’m going to try to be a little more active in GRSI, and this is meant to be a bit of heads up so people don’t wonder why my shared items are filled with my own comments and tell me that I’m doing it wrong. I’m not huge on the idea of using GRSI to go behind other bloggers’ backs (I know you wrote that article semi-tongue-in-cheek, but there are elements of that seeping into the current GRSI culture), which is why I tend to think that, where there’s an even choice between a shared item and a direct comment, the latter is better, even when you’re criticizing the original author. One of the things that appeals to me about this is that you’re essentially doing both.

By: usagijen

usagijen — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:56:28 +0000

Man, reminds me that of the ‘comments breadcrumb’ tracking with GRSI I thought of doing before, following after otou-san, but woe is me and my laziness .__.;;;

that said, add me in yer Google Reader friends, because GRSI is meant to be merry and fun too~