I submitted one of my recently-written articles on tracking comments using a neat website, Track your comments with Co.mments, to Sarah’s “How To” Group-Writing Project. And two days ago, the 44 finalists were announced, and all of us participants are supposed to (publicly) vote for our Top 3 entries on our own blogs (gulps!).
Now, before I proceed, I should let you know that all entries deserve to win, of course, including mine, thank you very much. And it really is no simple feat to determine the top 3 articles, especially when I cannot fully grasp those articles that teach bloggers how to make modifications to their wpconfig.php files, etc. And I will NOT make those modifications because I’m a tech-idi*t and I don’t want to be responsible if things go wrong on my blog, LOL.
Anyway, these are my favourites:
- How To Nail That Job Interview In The First Thirty Seconds by Martin Stoddart. Witty and hilarious, which makes reading such a pleasure
- Tips and Tricks: How to Write, Send, Reply, and Forward E-Mail by Lillie Amman. Provides quite an exhaustive list of tips when sending emails, which I think everybody should learn. It saves your time and increases your productivity!
- How To Review A Blog by AdTracker. Provides a list of criteria that we should all pay attention to when reviewing a blog.
Alright now, peeps, GOOD LUCK! 
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.
- 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!
- 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
- Blogging program — WordPress. This needs no introduction, no?
- 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!
- Plugin authors — WOW.. I have a huge list of this.. Thank you very much, guys, you all made my life easier with your plugins!
- Header image — Cindy L, who was so generous to allow me to use her pretty water drop picture on my header.
- Your web browser — Go Firefox!
- Web traffic analysis services — StatCounter rawks!
- 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
- 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).
- 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.
- Search engines — Err.. Google search?
- 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.
- Feed services — Recently started to use Feedburner, and I’m lovin’ it!
- 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?)!
- Sources of inspiration — Err.. Bloggers like Lorelle, Liz Strauss and Edrei, I’m serious!! Thank you very much for the inspiration
- Sources of motivation — Err..
- Your web host — OK, thank you for your services in the past one year.
- Those who link to you — Ei, those who link to me, thank you so so much.. Love you guys
- 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?
- Those you steal good ideas from — Cheh, I don’t steal la.
- 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?
- Your feed reader — Bloglines rawks!
- Your news sources — Err, The Star Online?
- 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!
- Your feed subscribers — Bloglines tells me I have 17 subscribers, Feedburner says otherwise.. Either way, thank you!
- Your guest blogger - My cutie pie sister!
- Your readers — Yea, thank YOU for dropping by, I appreciate it
- 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*
