It is with great sadness that yesterday I discovered one of my favorite services, Co.mments, is shutting down.  It looks like today is the last day.

Here is the message provided by the owners:

For those unfamiliar with the service, it allows you to track follow up comments.  I used it whenever I left a comment on a blog post, so now I’m not sure what service I will be using.   I prefer a bookmarklet, so I’ll have to look around and see if there is anything that can accommodate me.

What do you guys use to track follow up comments?

In addition to the stuff you’ll find here at Hack WordPress, there are all sorts of things being discussed around the blogosphere about WordPress. Here are a few things I’ve collected that I hope people will find useful:

• Webware has posted about Matt Mullenweg and his thoughts on the future of blogging. Included is quite a bit of talk about the development of WordPress and his hopes for the future of the internet being open source.
• JohnTP features a WordPress plugin called Feed Count. This plugin helps the user display their Feedburner subscriber numbers in a convenient text format.
• WordPress Garage explains how to give each comment a link in your WordPress theme.  This might be something people would want to do for certain types of blogs where comments are cited regularly.