What a wonderful way to summarize info. !

Sacha,

This is an amazing sketch. I love it! Especially how quickly you put it together as you were watching the presentation. That's a great talent you have. The sketch is very clear and captures the key points extremely well. Wow!

Sorry we were a bit overloaded with user activity on the system. Everything is back to normal this morning.

Thanks again for your great support. I'd like us to stay in touch.

William: I totally relate to your point about connecting with people online through blog comments and social network interactions, as I rarely drag myself out to events (often interesting, but also over-stimulating!). =) Thanks for sharing what you've learned and for orchestrating the creation of something useful.

Janet: Thanks! Working on making them even more visual and colourful. Might redraw this soon!

Have you thought about using a 3rd party commenting system (e.g. Disqus)? That way, you'll see your replies in Engagio too, and they do a pretty good job at removing spam automatically.

You might also see an uptick in commenting activity.

William: I thought about switching to Disqus or IntenseDebate, but I haven't made the jump. =) Lots of sites have shifted, but I'm a little wary of having comments on some other system, and people occasionally report problems with the synchronization with native Wordpress comments. I've looked at Livefyre too, but yeah, nothing compelling enough to get me to switch. Maybe someday!

In 2011, I received 762 approved comments from 372 other people (not including all the comments I left in reply). It's a decent rate - enough to have a few conversations each week and be surprised by the value that people get out of old blog posts. Many of my old posts resurface through Twitter and the occasional trackback. Bandwagon popularity might be nifty, but I don't mind focusing on earning people's input the hard way by sharing more thoughts and asking more questions. =)

As for engagio - I hope you'll have a cocomment-style way to capture comments anywhere someday!

Sacha, CoComment is a name I haven't seen in a long time! I too used it when it launched back in 2006, but when they introduced their 2.0 version I was never able to get it to work properly and reluctantly gave up on it. I didn't realize they were still around; I just tried to log in there but got a 500 Internal Server Error.

William, I agree with Sacha that it would be great if Engag.io could provide a way for its users to capture their comments anywhere (I used this CoComment feature all the time). It will be impossible to get all sites to use a supported commenting system or to make use of an Engag.io plugin. At the moment when I leave a comment at (for example) TheGlobeAndMail.com I have to do a manual note-to-self, so that Engag.io is doing only part of the job of tracking my conversations. Even a way to get something into Engag.io that doesn't fully track the conversation but still reminds me to check back on it later would be tremendously helpful. And while it would be nice if there's something I can use while I'm at TheGlobeAndMail.com (as CoComment provides), even something I can use by going to the Engag.io site (like an ability to "send to my inbox") would fill this gap.

I really love your visual notes Sacha! :) They're so easy to understand and you're sketches are really improving. I like the way you organize your thoughts and how you keep them simple and comprehensive.

I've kept a note-to-self to comment on the blogs that I have been reading. I also got curious of Fred Wilson's blog. :p