Subscribea bug capturing comments at blogia.com
It seems that the blogs hosted at blogia.com, i.e. diariodelabecaria, or leetamargo, or many others ar not correctly parsed and the comments either are not found, or only the name of commenter
Posted by fernando_estel in General on Tuesday, November 28th, 2006. You can follow any responses using co.mments, leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Assaf
November 29th, 2006 at 4:25 am
diariodelabecaria: that’s a known problem with anchors, I’m working on it, but still don’t have a good enough solution.
eetamargo: doesn’t use any markup for comments, so co.mments can’t guess where they are on the page and not able to show them.
Jon Williams
January 11th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
(I think your OpenID support may be having issues, but I have a weird delegated setup.)
Is there any way that you could explain how you detect new comments? Polling + exponential back off on no new comments? I don’t expect any secret sauce recipe but it might be nice to give this out for developers. Also, have you considered offering an XML-RPC ping?
I’d also be interested in knowing how you parse comments out of html. You should make contact with the microformats people http://microformats.org/wiki/comment-problem as they are interested in this.
Michael Meiser
January 13th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
Heh! Just wanted to know what’s going on around here. It’s been awefully quiet. I hope co.mments.com is getting very popular. I’ve been talking about it endlessly.
Just an FYI, I was just trying to track comments on a page.
http://sull.blip.tv/file/361/
Didn’t work, doesn’t work anywhere on blip.tv or on flickr.com either. Now flickr has great comment tracking so it hasn’t bothered me much. But this lead me to a great idea.
Have you guys created a comment microstandard?
There’s no specification I can point to and say, “please mark up your comments this way”?
I can totally help you get going on this if you haven’t. If you have please let me know so I can reccommend blip.tv and flickr impliment it.
We’re working on microcontent standards for semantically marking up media in blog posts… also worked on MediaRSS, not that I take any credit for it. The point is comments are extremely simple by comparison and I would be happy to see it happen.
Assaf
January 16th, 2007 at 1:46 am
@Michael,
co.mments is alive and growing steadily. Unfortunately, the server was having a bit of growing pains, and I’m still working on improving scalability.
I can see all the comments on that blip.tv link, full body and author. Flickr is a different story, their thread use inconsistent markup, which is a bit painful to work around.
If you have the time, I’d love to crank out a specification.
@Jon,
I guess that answers your question. I have a rougth draft, but I’ll need some help coming up with a document.
co.mments does not do OpenID yet, I only started working on it recently, and it’s not ready for prime time.
There is a ping service, I kept it simple, using REST. The URL is:
http://co.mments.com/services/ping?url=
Check it out and let me know what you think.
Frank Ammer
January 26th, 2007 at 4:19 am
I tried to track comments from the URL:
http://merchant-blog.hitflip.de/
Didn´t work -what am I doing wrong?
http://www.hitflip.de
Assaf
January 26th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Frank, find a specific post on that blog that you want to follow, and track it. For example:
http://merchant-blog.hitflip.de/offline-marketing/hitflip-bei-bigfm-radio-werbung/
BMW
March 22nd, 2007 at 9:44 am
Have you guys created a comment microstandard?
Assaf
March 22nd, 2007 at 3:17 pm
not yet.
Reading Female
April 1st, 2007 at 3:21 pm
I’ve been following this with interest. I’ve actually ditched by blogia hosted site (because of ‘real work’ pressures).
A flickr ‘finished product’ would be VERY welcome.
Fernabitur
November 30th, 2007 at 2:24 am
Well, could anybody explain to me what is a microstandard???
Thanks for information!!
Regards, Andrea
Assaf
November 30th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Fernabitur, I believe that was in reference to microformats.
Fernabitur
January 8th, 2008 at 2:51 am
Oh, well yes. Thank you!