I got an invitation code sent to me within a few hours of signing up on their notification list. Unfortunately I then discovered that it doesn't yet work with Movable Type or Powerblogs, so it's not much use to many of us yet.
Still, it's an early beta, so it might turn into a good thing eventually.
Doesn't work with Movable Type? Even the comment tracking function?
Seems that way, although it claims to work on typepad hosted blogs, so I'm not sure why.
I just tired it with this comment, and I got a "this blog is not supported yet" message.
Even on supported blogs, it seems like the comment tracking function only lets you know of replies to your post that are posted by other coComment members. I suppose it could be useful just to keep track of where you had posted, though.
Stanley 13, I hate the word "blog" too. It seems cutesily false-modest.
By contrast, I find the title / author combination The Bog People, by P.V. Glob" to be quite delightful -- really a masterful use of the same kinds of phonemes.
25 - Stanley would like to say "blog" several times aloud in order to test your hypothesis; however, Stanley works at a crowded contact center and wishes not to draw attention to the activities going on in Stanley's cubicle.
As an aside, is there a Spanish-language equivalent to "blog"?
Also: Incidentally, the Spanish have their own word for blog. It is bitícora. I suspect, however, that—much like the triumph of marketing over mercadotecnia—blog will soon snuff-out bitícora in the Spanish lexicon for reasons of expediency. Although I admit that my logic is shaky on this point, since expediency isn't necessarily a high-priority in Spanish culture—particularly when urgent plumbing repairs are needed.
I studied in South America back in the college years.
While there, I had an internship with Amnesty International, and I tried to convince them to start a blog about human rights. They thought I was gringo nutso.
For this reason (among others) I now deem Human Wrights Watch as the superior defender of the masses.
The invites aren't gmail style - you can't spread them around. But if you sign up on their web page, you might just get one in a day or so like JO and me.
In Brussels, the EU Ministry of Technologie reacted with alarm to this proliferation of 'blog' terms unique to each country, especially after they learned that the Poles intended to call them "gzybrgrlz". The EU has consequently appointed a commission to draft a plan to hold a meeting to prepare an agenda. Officials are hopeful that a single, Europe-wide standard term can be introduced in time for the 2104 Olympics.
It looks like you need an invitation.
Posted by Joe O | Link to this comment | 02- 9-06 7:02 PM
Perhaps I should have looked more closely.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 02- 9-06 7:07 PM
This has to be the most content-free post ever.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 9-06 7:44 PM
Not hardly.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 02- 9-06 7:46 PM
Posted by Ugh | Link to this comment | 02- 9-06 8:16 PM
Ugh is the hero!
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 9-06 8:17 PM
I think ugh is teh
Posted by tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 02- 9-06 8:28 PM
Wow, anyone got an invitation code to share with me or us?
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 02- 9-06 8:28 PM
Why comment elsewhere? Why even link elsewhere? Every link I click here leads elsewhere . . . here. Who needs anything more?
Communists, that's who. And you know what we do with communists . . .
Posted by Scott Eric Kaufman | Link to this comment | 02- 9-06 9:16 PM
I think I had to swear to foresake all other blogs before I was allowed to stick my comments in here.
Posted by Michael H Schneider | Link to this comment | 02- 9-06 9:28 PM
everyone is free to comment at my blog. of course, it's just a syndication of this.
Posted by tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 02- 9-06 9:53 PM
So I suppose no one knows what we do with communists here? It involves canned cherries and measuring cup. C'mon, people, don't disappoint me. . .
Posted by Scott Eric Kaufman | Link to this comment | 02- 9-06 10:18 PM
Am I the only one who supports using the all-caps "UPDATE:" when new information is supplied on a blog post?
Am I also the only person who hates the word "blog"?
Posted by Stanley | Link to this comment | 02- 9-06 11:33 PM
I got an invitation code sent to me within a few hours of signing up on their notification list. Unfortunately I then discovered that it doesn't yet work with Movable Type or Powerblogs, so it's not much use to many of us yet.
Still, it's an early beta, so it might turn into a good thing eventually.
Posted by Big Ben | Link to this comment | 02- 9-06 11:53 PM
Doesn't work with Movable Type? Even the comment tracking function?
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 02- 9-06 11:58 PM
Stanley, everyone else loves the word "blog," you're just a freak.
Posted by Scott Eric Kaufman | Link to this comment | 02-10-06 12:25 AM
Doesn't work with Movable Type? Even the comment tracking function?
Seems that way, although it claims to work on typepad hosted blogs, so I'm not sure why.
I just tired it with this comment, and I got a "this blog is not supported yet" message.
Even on supported blogs, it seems like the comment tracking function only lets you know of replies to your post that are posted by other coComment members. I suppose it could be useful just to keep track of where you had posted, though.
Posted by Big Ben | Link to this comment | 02-10-06 1:03 AM
I use '...'.
Posted by David Weman | Link to this comment | 02-10-06 2:58 AM
10 -- very nicely done. I was trying to figure out how to make the connection between this post and the previous one but was not up to it.
18 -- You mean, in place of "blog"? Or is that just a general statement?
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 02-10-06 5:40 AM
"the previous one" s/b "Tia's post yesterday".
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 02-10-06 5:57 AM
In place of UPDATE.
Like Atrios.
Posted by David Weman | Link to this comment | 02-10-06 6:02 AM
Ah. That makes more sense, thanks.
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 02-10-06 6:12 AM
Ogged-style (pour a little on the floor) would be:
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02-10-06 7:42 AM
Stanley 13, I hate the word "blog" too. It seems cutesily false-modest.
By contrast, I find the title / author combination The Bog People, by P.V. Glob" to be quite delightful -- really a masterful use of the same kinds of phonemes.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 02-10-06 7:44 AM
I like 'blog'. Try saying it aloud a couple of times.
Posted by David Weman | Link to this comment | 02-10-06 7:48 AM
I like 'blog'. Try saying it aloud a couple of times.
Didn't Monty Python have a sketch where they do this?...
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 02-10-06 7:51 AM
Shut up!! Syndicated columnists are off.
Posted by David Weman | Link to this comment | 02-10-06 8:09 AM
"In memory of Ogged". Well, fair enough.
Posted by David Weman | Link to this comment | 02-10-06 8:13 AM
25 - Stanley would like to say "blog" several times aloud in order to test your hypothesis; however, Stanley works at a crowded contact center and wishes not to draw attention to the activities going on in Stanley's cubicle.
As an aside, is there a Spanish-language equivalent to "blog"?
Posted by Stanley | Link to this comment | 02-10-06 8:19 AM
I dunno. It's blogue in French (but blog is more usual, I think.) blogg in German and Swedish.
Posted by David Weman | Link to this comment | 02-10-06 8:21 AM
Oh ,yeah.
Posted by David Weman | Link to this comment | 02-10-06 8:26 AM
Also: Incidentally, the Spanish have their own word for blog. It is bitícora. I suspect, however, that—much like the triumph of marketing over mercadotecnia—blog will soon snuff-out bitícora in the Spanish lexicon for reasons of expediency. Although I admit that my logic is shaky on this point, since expediency isn't necessarily a high-priority in Spanish culture—particularly when urgent plumbing repairs are needed.
Posted by David Weman | Link to this comment | 02-10-06 8:28 AM
My Spanish boyfriend said "un blog" in 2003.
Posted by Tia | Link to this comment | 02-10-06 8:38 AM
30 -- surely it's bløg in Norwegian? Or at least in Heavy-Metal-album-coverese?
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 02-10-06 8:44 AM
I studied in South America back in the college years.
While there, I had an internship with Amnesty International, and I tried to convince them to start a blog about human rights. They thought I was gringo nutso.
For this reason (among others) I now deem Human Wrights Watch as the superior defender of the masses.
Posted by Stanley | Link to this comment | 02-10-06 9:45 AM
Tia, he only said it that one time?
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 02-10-06 9:49 AM
Hey! I just got emailed a CoComment invite code! I'll see if I get any to spread around.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 02-10-06 12:07 PM
[looks in inbox] -- Oh -- me too! Apparently if you sign up for notification, they will give you an invitation.
Posted by Jeremy Osner | Link to this comment | 02-10-06 12:11 PM
The invites aren't gmail style - you can't spread them around. But if you sign up on their web page, you might just get one in a day or so like JO and me.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 02-10-06 12:16 PM
In Brussels, the EU Ministry of Technologie reacted with alarm to this proliferation of 'blog' terms unique to each country, especially after they learned that the Poles intended to call them "gzybrgrlz". The EU has consequently appointed a commission to draft a plan to hold a meeting to prepare an agenda. Officials are hopeful that a single, Europe-wide standard term can be introduced in time for the 2104 Olympics.
From David W.'s link.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 02-10-06 7:57 PM
"gzybrgrlz"
Is it my imagination, or is the Polish word for "blog" cognate with "cybergirls"?
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 02-10-06 8:02 PM
I think that part of the post was not technically, how you say, 'true'.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02-10-06 9:02 PM
O faithless, faithless internets!
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 02-10-06 9:07 PM