While surfing through my colleagues’ excellent EDC blogs I noticed that some where manually pasting the comments they’ve posted on other people’s blogs onto their own lifestream (to have them count towards the assessment).
Instead of copy/pasting or making a collection of screenshots of your comments there is a way to automate this task using IFTTT.
I created a recipe you can use as a template. All that is left to do is to set it up for each blog’s address you are commenting on.
I changed my displayed name from Mihael to my blog’s username mkiseloski, so that if people were to respond to my comment with a comment of their own, mentioning my name, it would not set off another trigger and post their comment on my lifestream as well. You can change your displayed name to your username in the blog’s dashboard by clicking on “Edit My Profile” in the upper right corner. In my case it now says “Howdy, mkiseloski”, with mkiseloski being the displayed name on all my posts.
Under Feed URL you simply use the username from your colleague’s blog address. For example, in case you want to comment on my blog you’d put mkiseloski instead of USERNAME into the address. The final result would then look like
http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/mkiseloski/comments/feed/
I hope this makes life a bit easier in the weeks going forward. If you have any questions, let me know and I’ll be happy to help you out!
Happy commenting everyone 
Thanks for this Mihael. Just to clarify, do we need to create multiple recipes, each with a different blog URL, to capture our comments in our classmates blogs? Thanks again!
Yes, Ed, a recipe has to be created for each classmate’s blog, but it only needs to be done once and the only thing you need change for each is the username in the comment feed URL. Hope that clarifies it.