I wish that I had found CoComments a month ago. TheCaymanHost turned me on to this, and it’s going to save my bacon. I can tell already.

In the past week I have posted twice saying “I can’t remember where I saw this, but blah blah blah.” (Referring to a place that I commented, but didn’t bookmark.) My bookmarks are cluttered enough, and now I’m on a commenting rampage, and I can’t bookmark every single site I visit.

CoComment uses an unobtrusive Firefox plugin to keep track of the blogs you visit and the comments you leave. You can also delete references to places you know you don’t want to return to or to track.

*EDIT* You do not have to use Firefox, but I think it’s by far the easiest. Non-Firefox users have an option called Bookmarklet as explained on the CoComment website. *END EDIT*

I’ve only just started using it, and I tell ya, I think it’s the niftiest thing since RSS readers. If you join up, drop me a friend invite! My username is Jayne .

Oh and why am I such a comment ditz these days? Because I ran across a blog (umm, I can’t remember where…. see what I mean?) where someone was giving blog advice and he gave some “blogwork” to all his readers to leave 20 comments on other blogs per day. (I took this to mean NEW blogs… not ones already on your own blogroll or that you regularly visit.)

So I decided to keep track of how many comments I leave, and to try to leave 20 per day per blog I run (which thankfully at this point is just two).

Holy guacamole. It’s harder than I thought! I really thought I was already leaving that many, but it turns out I couldn’t possibly have been. I was probably reading 40 blogs, but only commenting on 3-4 of them.

The experiment I’m running is to do this for a week and see if it raises the traffic I get and the amount of comments my own posts get. So I’ll keep at it and let you know the results next week.

And now, in the meantime, I’ve got a little helper to remind me where I leave all these comments, and the many worthwhile blogs out there.

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All bloggers seem to like to share… their words, their posts, and great finds on the internet. Well it just got a whole lot easier with the Shareaholics Plugin for Firefox 2.0

Not using Firefox ? Then you should be. I made the final switch when I discovered that the StumbleUpon toolbar was making IE7 crash (and Windows Explorer too, which is a nightmare), just as the Google Toolbar had done! With Firefox I don’t have those problems, and I don’t even need a whole big toolbar to check PageRank… one plugin gives this to me in a tiny little bottom corner. Not to mention that if you’re trying to promote… well, anything on the web, you want to be a part of StumbleUpon!

So how does this Shareaholics Plugin work? It adds a small button by your navigation window like so:

Also notice how it gives you LIVE data on how many diggs and del.icio.us submissions a page already has, which is good for checking up on your own articles as well.

If you want your own articles submitted more, I firmly believe the key is being a part of the community of people who submit articles from all over. This plugin makes it easy.

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