[tags]comments, cocomment, Amy Gahran, Jack Vinson, Robert Scoble, Web 2.0, Comment Tracking, Me Collection, Me Collector, Information Overload, Web Apps, Facebook, Parakey[/tags]

I have read a great number of posts over the years. I have such an addiction for computers and Internet content that many people have suggested I need a 12 step program for my passion. I read feeds, blog at several sites, chat, leave comments, constantly listen to podcast and who knows what else I will add to the list. Leo Laporte has talked about being blessed by living in this "Golden Age". Amy Gahran has talked about us transcending the Information Age and entering the Connectivity Era. She has also written much about the fact that we are no longer involved in one way sputtering out of monologue but conversation. Recently some conversation has come about regarding comments, both in general and, more relevant here, the problem of tracking them.

Now toss on your favorite tie-dye T-shirt, bell bottoms and travel with me back to 1970. Alvin Toffler publishes Future Shock and into our vocabulary enters the term information overload. I checked the book out of the library in 2006 and re-read certain areas of it. 36 years after publication it rings true in a prophetic manner. How do we manage all of this and how do we sort through the data smog? More specifically, how do we even manage what we write, read and wish to follow?

Amy Gahran stated that she has a pipe dream regarding this issue. Jack Vinson agrees with the wish and offered a few potential solutions.

I am not here with solutions. I am a web addict and have learned much over the years. Regrettably, the reason I have learned so much is because I learn from my mistakes and I am really, really good at making mistakes. I am hastily trying to finish this before I head off to work so that I might have some more feedback by the time I return home. I have about 4 minutes left.

A few days ago I learned about some things via Scoble. He mentioned that testing out CoComments. Now he is saying that he can’t recommend it. I must agree. Mr. Scoble also had something to say about