What are some strategies for keeping track of comments you leave on other people's blogs? Knowing when someone replies to an interesting comment encourages discussion and participation. \

Some feeds provide comment feeds, for the site as a whole or for individual posts, but before long you might end up with dozens of feeds in your aggregator. Another approach is to allow users to receive notification via email, but then you're giving your email address to yet another website. A third approach is to use a service like Commentful, co.mments, or coComment, which promise to track comments across blogs and other social sites.\

Commentful tracks comments after the user has added them to their tracking queue and provides a firefox plugin for notifications, but not a syndication feed. co.mments also requires you to add URLs to be watched for comments, and provides handly bookmarklets to simplify the process, and most importantly, you can get comment updates in a feed.  coComment, on the other hand, apparently makes a copy of your comment and then you "track the ensuing conversation without having to check back on the original site." The latter sounds like hijacking someone else's hard-earned participation. \

For that reason, I'm going to give co.mments a try. If you follow any number of blogs, I'd encourage you to do the same and post about your experience here.\

Roger Johansson's post from 2005 is still as true today as it was then: A web professional can never stop learning.  Here it's 2007 and we're still dealing with designs that look best in photoshop, and my personal pet peeve - images for text headers (is there anything less useful?). \

Web professionals who refuse to update their skills and insist on using outdated methods can no longer be called web professionals.

One of the last sites I worked on, I actually punted the html code back to the designer and asked them to redo it using less tables and more CSS. Surprisingly, it worked - I had to clean up some of the CSS and layout myself but the end result was table free. (BTW, this wasn't someone at work). How do you deal with less than web ready "designs" or steer clients away from bad design decisions?\

You might think that apple is poking fun at windows in this latest Mac advertisement{.Vista .Security}, but you'd be fooling yourself. But judging by the comments in Very Severe Hole" in Vista UAC Design, its really a documentary, not an ad. What's the giant security hole - oh yeah - any installer automatically runs with administrator privileges, any installer. Did it really take Microsoft 6 years to figure this out when both Mac and Linux already work their way? Or is this how they innovate?