Easton Ellsworth has a great short post about the three free tools he uses to track his commenting online over at Performancing.com. As community becomes decentralized online - that is, people interacting at more than one site - things like this will become more important, I think. Will there be a day when we have information overload, though? I'm reminded of a post by JD Lasica recently about catching up on his email. Heh.

Ellsworth wrote:

In February, Chris Garrett wrote about tracking your conversations. I use three excellent tools to help me do this.

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I use these three tools to remember where I've commented and what I've said, and to follow the continuing conversations. Right now, I still go and visit the pages I've recently commented at, just to be sure. But these tools and others are constantly improving. Hopefully a tool will come along that will automate the process so I don't have to remember to follow up on comments I've left - the tool would simply alert me. I'm an editor for the Know More Media blog network and I just wish there were an easy way to track all the comments our 50-plus authors leave around the Web!

The three he uses are coComment, del.icio.us and co.mments.

To be honest, I use del.icio.us, but not to track comments. I'm simply not that organized. It seems like a good idea, though, that would help me with keeping up conversations, though.

Anything anyone out there uses that they'd like to recommend?

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