This morning I woke up and the first thought on my mind was "If I write a feed reader that allows people to follow a conversation in a blog entry's comments, how will they participate in the conversation?"

I already had some idea that the technology might exist: a long …

I switched feed readers a while back; I ditched Google Reader in favor of Liferea. Liferea brings some interesting features to the table that Google Reader didn't, like the automatic downloading of comments where available.

After using it for a while, I've begun to consider wrapping comment tracking and feed …

A few days ago I added support for tracking Wordpress.com comments, but its implementation leaves a lot to be desired, as I'm merely using comment feeds for the purpose.

The first problem is that Wordpress.com limits the number of comments in feeds to 10. Thus, it is very …

Earlier this month I wrote about scraping LiveJournal comments. What was I thinking?

While I was able to account for a number of variables in the page by tweaking my XPath statements, it became obvious early on that screen scraping for comments should be a last resort. So I decided …

I used Spam Karma 2 throughout the month of May, and it proved itself a better solution than Akismet.

Akismet performed with 97% accuracy for the month of April 2007.

A while back I started searching through Google, Yahoo, and MSN, trying to find every reference to my name online. I'm trying to reel in everything I've said out on the interweb, because I feel it's important to know exactly what I've said over the years...just in case. Indeed …