Saravanan Sahadevan

In a day, I stumble upon through stumble upon or search engines to various blogs that are seriously wonderful. Often I do comment on the postings made and would love to continue to do so.

Sadly, I have a bad memory. I’m sure we all do sometimes at least. I do not remember most of the places I left a comment to check back. I’m sure I’m not the only one but many others.

I would like to appeal to all other blog authors to have a plugin or script to subscribe to individual post comments like the one you could find on my blog. I’m using a Wordpress plugin by Mark Jaquith. Its works with the latest version of Wordpress (WP 2.6) although it is not stated as so. 

Its standard for Wordpress code system to generate RSS feeds for comments but it does not any make sense to subscribe to comments with RSS. That’s because its not filtered by post basis or so and you would get insane by finding anything related to your comment. 

The easiest and the best method till date would be to just have a plugin activated and let it do the rest by sending email prompts messages on recent comments. 

Update : WordPress does actually generate per-post comment feeds! The feed for this post is http://saranx.com/2008/08/06/i-beg-the-blogosphere-to-add-comments-subscriptions/feed/. , thx Mark.

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Another weekly dive into current buzz in the social media scene, productive lifestyle & current technology trends. 

• Fan’s of advertising networks, well there seems to be more good news for you this time around. Technorati have launched their own advertising network called the Technorati Media.
• Chris Pirillo gives an in-depth review on the best Adobe Air applications around till date. 
• Facebook takes a step forward at the chinese market by spreading its presence towards them.
• Had a thought on having domain extensions such as .sex , .monkey , .blahblahblah? Well perhaps your dream might come true as ICANN might consider relaxing on certain naming rules. Having said that, did a quick scan over the blogosphere and it looks like bloggers are not to happy over this issue. I guess you know why.
• Wordpress 2.6 Beta 1 is finally out. Do take it for a spin. Lot’s of notable changes. Direct download link

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It’s my first made free Wordpress Theme and its “Naked”. A complete imageless theme and powered by simple CSS. For those who hate bulky images and want a clean blog, I believe Naked is your choice. It’s Sidebar widget supported as well. Works on Internet Explorer like a charm. 

For Download Link, Subscribe to RSS Feeds. And see below this post.

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How many of you have heard about Gravatar? Mostly Wordpress bloggers might know this as Wordpress supports this in its latest version, 2.5 and above. Gravatars are basically tiny little images that act as your online image identity.

Instead of uploading your favorite image or avatar at every single site, now you can upload to only one site and you can have a global Gravatar. This application is widely used in most Wordpress blogs these days. You could even see it working here on this site. Once you upload your image on Gravatar’s site and assign an email address for it, your Gravatar will now appear on all blogs that have it enabled. As long your email address provided in the field corresponds with your Gravatar email address.

I highly recommend, bloggers to activate their sites with Gravatars. Why? Because people want their face to published! Actually it gives a commenter more honor and prestige for their contribution. And comments section in a blog is obviously very important as that’s where the community is. 

If you read the Gravatar development blog, the team actually encourages more and more developers to make use of Gravatars just as how Wordpress did. Gravatar as well runs on an open platform so any developer could make use of it wisely. I recently stumbled upon one application that provides Mac OSX address book an option to  download the Gravatar of your contacts who has them. That’s really applicable. Even by syncing them onto mobile phones, it benefits. Hope it gets even more interesting as time goes on. 

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Just a quick note here. Chris Pirillo, one of the great guys who I follow launched couple a days ago his new theme. And its for download. He has made it unique that it has its own social media options. Below is a brief list. 

WicketPixie gives you:

• Your own Activity Stream / Social Graph page
• Your own Collected Favorites page / News Aggregator
• An easy ability to change certain style elements
• A high-quality Web design for your site
• A clean way to present ALL your social profiles
• The freedom to donate to future theme development
• Gravatar support within WordPress v2.5+
• The ability to use any feed source as a Status message
• Areas optimized for advertising

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