So despite a fantastic day at Churchill Downs, I’m committed enough to attempt the day 3 challenge just minutes before midnight of day 4. As luck would have it, all I’m challenged to do today is sign up for a comment tracking service. I’m a little perplexed by this, in that the “how to join the challenge” instructions told you to sign up for one before you even got started.

Conveniently for me, I’ve already joined both coComment and co.mments. They are similar, yet different. coComment is slicker in that it has a handy Firefox extension that embeds a coComment interface around any comment box. This allows you to start tracking the conversation right at the point of commenting without any sort of clunky bookmarklet or other kludge that takes you away from the main task of adding to the conversation. But my initial impression is that the site on the whole is slower than co.mments, especially in actually updating conversations with new comments. I’m focusing more on coComment right now, since that’s the tool of choice for the challenge, but I’m going to keep using both tools for some discussions and therein continue my evaluation.

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