pelf-ism is contagious

How often do you leave comments whenever you blog-hop? And how often do you return to those blogs to follow up on the conversation after you’ve left your comment or suggestion or question? Do you use the “Notify me of new comments” option? If you do, are you ever annoyed by the amount of irrelevant emails you receive?

Now, Co.mments helps you stay on top of the conversation by keeping you updated of new comments. It is very user-friendly, and all you need to do is bookmark, track and follow. Registration is hassle-free, and you do not need to download and install anything at all.

1. BOOKMARK

   

   Before you bookmark any page, you may have to drag and drop the co.mments bookmarklet to your toolbar to enable easy bookmarking with just ONE click. Once you have your bookmarklet on your toolbar, it only takes ONE click to bookmark any page that you are intending to track and follow. And the best thing is that it takes only a few seconds!

2. TRACK AND FOLLOW

   

   You may track and follow your comments from the Co.mments page, or you may subscribe to your own feed so that you will be notified whenever somebody responds to a conversation that you are a part of.

   If for any reasons, you do not want to place the co.mments bookmarklet onto your toolbar, you may always copy and paste the URL of the particular page onto your tracking page. It works just the same.

   

   If you are no longer following a particular conversation, or if your concern is already addressed, you may REMOVE it. Similarly, you may also click the RECHECK button to check for new replies on your tracking page.

There may be other more popular comment-tracking application but I personally find Co.mments easy to use and maintain.

And in case you are wondering, no, this isn’t a sponsored post

Lorelle listed a whole list of 55 parties whom you should thank, for without them, “your blog will not be your blog.” So yea, I’m going to thank a lot of you today, though NOT all 55 parties because I don’t use some of your services

1. Blogging program — WordPress. This needs no introduction, no?
2. The theme designer — t0mmmmmmm (yea, with 7 “m”s, and he miraculously released a 3-column Mandigo JUST when I was looking for it. I was hooked, and there was no turning back. And t0mmmmmmmm gets back to me despite me asking him stupid questions!
3. Plugin authors — WOW.. I have a huge list of this.. Thank you very much, guys, you all made my life easier with your plugins!
4. Header image — Cindy L, who was so generous to allow me to use her pretty water drop picture on my header.
5. Your web browser — Go Firefox!
6. Web traffic analysis services — StatCounter rawks!
7. Social bookmarking services — I used to use Digg but recently I don’t anymore. I feel that my content isn’t up to the standard yet. But I’ve recently experimented with del.icio.us and find it nice to play with
8. Social networking services — I LOVE 9rules! Thanks Edrei, for introducing me to this, and to Facebook as well (though I’m not quite familiar with it yet).
9. Advertisers — OK, let’s see.. A huge THANK YOU to those who have placed an ad on my blog. Ouh yea, and all other Google ads.
10. Search engines — Err.. Google search?
11. Pinging services — I used to ping a couple of services, but I don’t anymore. Nowadays I occasionally ping a Malaysian blog portal, Project Petaling Street and Technorati, I think.
12. Feed services — Recently started to use Feedburner, and I’m lovin’ it!
13. Those you blockquote and quote from — Seriously, I can’t be listing each and everyone of you, but if you knew that I quoted you and that you’re reading this, thank you (but for what?)!
14. Sources of inspiration — Err.. Bloggers like Lorelle, Liz Strauss and Edrei, I’m serious!! Thank you very much for the inspiration
15. Sources of motivation — Err..
16. Your web host — OK, thank you for your services in the past one year.
17. Those who link to you — Ei, those who link to me, thank you so so much.. Love you guys
18. Those on your blogroll — WHOA, I read about 50 Malaysian blogs on average, so I cannot list everybody here la. But if I comment on your blog, it means that you’re one of those in my blogroll la, OK?
19. Those you steal good ideas from — Cheh, I don’t steal la.
20. Your family (who have no idea what a blog is) — Serious! My family has no idea what a blog is! But of course my cousins do Thanks Eddy, thanks Yumi, I know you guys drop by often. But if possible leave me a comment or two to cheer me up la, OK?
21. Your feed reader — Bloglines rawks!
22. Your news sources — Err, The Star Online?
23. Those who made you a favorite on Technorati — five wonderful people favourited me, thanks Craig @ Deep Sea News, Karen @ The Pond, Joen05 @ Intermission at Work, April @ CraftZombie and Sera @ Cultivated by Design!
24. Your feed subscribers — Bloglines tells me I have 17 subscribers, Feedburner says otherwise.. Either way, thank you!
25. Your guest blogger - My cutie pie sister!
26. Your readers — Yea, thank YOU for dropping by, I appreciate it
27. Your readers, even those who do not comment — Ei, leave me a comment la. At least let me know that you’ve been here! Pretty please…?

So yea.. Thank you everybody, for making my blog, my blog. Without you guys, I wouldn’t be here today *bows*

Hi guys! First off, I’d like to thank each and everyone of you for your comments on the first post of the Rediscovering chenpn.com series. Thank you very, very much, I appreciate your time and feedback…

… and to reward you, I will feed you with more questions, heh!

First impressions *shrugs* We’ve read and heard too much that first impressions are important and everlasting. The first impression either lands you on the job, or it doesn’t. It either increases your RSS subscribers, or it doesn’t. It either makes your first-time visitors come back for more, or, well, it doesn’t.

I know I am guilty as charged. When I land on somebody’s blog for the first time, it’s very important that the blog theme and layout appeals to me (and my eyes). I have the notoriety of not coming back to a blog because the blog theme and colour scheme and font type and line height doesn’t appeal to me much. Much has been said about how content is king these days, but when the colour of the blog hurts your eyes way before you finished reading the first paragraph, I’m sure you too, wouldn’t stay any longer

And as much as I’d kill the blog I’ve just landed on, I do stay on to browse the categories and a couple of posts because I believe in giving bloggers the benefit of the doubt. Yeah, the blog theme may not be nice (it’s quite subjective anyway) or the colour may be blinding, or the font size may be too small for my liking (or I’d have to strain to read the posts) but if a blogger has good, quality content, I wouldn’t think twice before subscribing to his/her blog feeds.

Similarly, when I’m subscribed to somebody’s RSS feeds, overtime, if I find myself reading the feeds without wanting to click through to leave a comment, I’ll unsubscribe myself from it. And that’s the end. I will not return to that particular blog unless I chance upon it again while blog-hopping or while browsing a blog aggregator (e.g. Project Petaling Street or SARAWho or Frenzrss or 9rules).

So my question is this — What was your first impression of chenpn.com? How different (or similar) it is compared to the other blogs you’re currently subscribed to? And how different is chenpn.com from your first impression? Were you ever disappointed because the content wasn’t up to your expectations? Or were you excited about finding it?

So would you please tell me why you kept coming back to read chenpn.com? And if you’re reading this from your feedreader, would you please click through to tell me about it? Your feedback is greatly appreciated..

Rediscovering chenpn.com series:

1. Why do you read chenpn.com?
2. What was your first impression of chenpn.com?
3. What have you learned from chenpn.com?