How To Track Blog Comments

Tracking comments on your blog and your own comments on other blogs is the subject of a post by journalist and academic Julie Starr.

Starr reviews two software services which allow the blogger and the poster to keep up to date with conversations they’re involved in around the Web.

On her blog she discusses Backtype, a service which enables users to track their own comments and to follow others on the Web through their comments.

Backtype users can receive RSS feeds of comments mentioning search terms selected by them.

Starr, who worked with the Telegraph Media Group on its multimedia newsroom, also reviews Disqus.

This service sends emails to bloggers when a comment is placed on their own blog and can help with quick moderation and spam filtering.

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