SubscribeShare Your Tracking List with Others
Your tracking page and tracking feed are for your own use. But what if you want to share your tracking list with others?
Now you can do that in three different ways. Your public page shows all the conversations you are currently tracking, and there’s also a public Web feed you can share with others. Your account settings page shows where your public page and public Web feed are.
You can also share your tracking list on your blog, Web page or any other place that allows you to use JavaScript. Your settings page includes a short snippet you can paste into any HTML page to show your tracking list.
Posted by Assaf in Announcements, features on Monday, August 28th, 2006. You can follow any responses using co.mments, leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Michael Meiser
September 1st, 2006 at 12:32 am
Better than a link blog. I think what your *participating* in is more important and useful than what dead link your blogging. This bookmarklet is brilliant. In fact I might add it to my blog tomorow.
But first to issues. Can I at least RSS subscribe to it? It’s just eye candy without RSS.
Better, yet, can I subscribe to someone elses trackings by email!?
I have a few friends with whom conversations constantly revolve… what would happen if we all were to introduce into the debate articles for discussion by simply leaving a comment? Think of it as a distributed and organic yahoo groups!?
It matters not what blog, what site or what service they use. This could be a brilliant experiment.
Secondly, (or third?) Delicious link blogging has moved away from the sidebar and into the main blog. Ussually as a daily summary. People have found this to make much more sense.
So… how about a module or feed or something (look at how delicious does it)… that gives me a daily summary of conversations I’ve participated in. Maybe it’s as simple as the title and the number of comments. But maybe it’s the title of the original post, my comment and comments made since I made my comment?
I wonder… with and evil and very happy smirk… can we go to far with exposing our personal dialogues?
first the blog
second the link blog
now the conversation log?
-Mike
Assaf
September 1st, 2006 at 12:40 am
Michael,
Besides the sidebar widget, there’s also a public page for each user, and a feed you can subscribe to.
No e-mail at the moment, but that’s a good idea for a future release.
I used delicious for the sidebar, then switched to the daily links, then switched away from those. But I like the daily links, it’s a feature worth adding, just need the time to implement it.
And separately, conversing through comments is a great idea. I’m curious to see it in action and how it evolves!
John
September 26th, 2006 at 8:05 am
This is a great idea and something that was really missing from co.mments IMO. One thing, though - you include CSS info embedded in the text, and this over-rides my own definitions. Can you provide a style-less version for those of us who want to make it blend better into our templates?
TiA
Assaf
October 4th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
John,
I’ve tried to make the minimal stylesheet that’s least intrusive.
And I know there’s a way to override the CSS using !important. If you add that at the end of your styles, you can override the co.mments style.
But it doesn’t always work, so I’m going to figure out a UI for customizing the widget, and possibly even add more options.
John
October 5th, 2006 at 11:42 am
Sorry, I obviously wasn’t clear. What I’d like is to have the HTML without *any* associated stylesheet. Let us know what tags you’re using and let us write our own stylesheet. The problem with including a default one is that it will over-ride anything in the document’s main stylesheet. And, because the text arrives from a JS include, it’s very hard to see what tags you’ve actually included.
Assaf
October 5th, 2006 at 11:53 am
John,
Will this solve the problem?
a) Include an option so the widget spits out HTML without any stylesheet. Easy to use your own style.
b) Include an option so the widget spits out HTML, not JavaScript. You can see what tags are being used, also use it from your own scripts.
What I’m working on is a way to easly configure the widget, a “make your own widget” form.
John
October 6th, 2006 at 1:27 am
Yes - option (a) is pretty much what I was asking for, I think. Just post a list of the tags and what they apply to and we can do the rest ourselves.
Many thanks for making co.mments so useful!