I’ve never been the biggest fan of the “trackback” feature on many blogs — it just seems to further clutter the footer of posts, it seems generally underutilized and, as far as I understand, it’s available only to blog publishers using TypePad or MovableType. But, since a few of you have asked me about it, I’ve turned it on for future posts. I better start seeing some trackback links now soon, or I’ll be turning it off again eventually.
UPDATE/CORRECTION:
Okay, okay, as a few of you have pointed out, I am wrong about MT/TP being the only blog softwares that enable Trackbacks. See comments and trackback-comments for details. I’m also seeing trackbacks on other posts, so I guess I’ll leave them on for a while and see how it goes.
Time to demonstrate Simpletracks again
Rick, there is Kalsey Consulting’s Simpletracks for those whose tools don’t directly support it.
That’s what I’ve used to let you know about this post.
I’m also not a huge fan at the way that the trackback concept is implemented today. So let’s e…
Trackback by B. Mann Consulting — July 16, 2004 @ 1:39 pm
I’ve seen Blogger blogs (like British Spin) using TrackBack, and I know that Expression Engine (the new CMS from the folks at PMachine) also uses it. Word Press, too, if I’m not mistaken. Trackback’s finest hour gives a prime example of how it can be a spectacular way of letting a company know when they’ve done something wrong – or right – and how their customers feel about it.
Comment by Jackie Danicki — July 17, 2004 @ 10:56 am
TRACKBACK
UPDATE 07/18/04: Here is a message to Rick E. Bruner: I use HaloScan’s trackback feature together with Blogger. If you want to “continue the discussion,” click on the link to read Politburo Diktat’s posts, TrackBack Dialectics and Trackbacks – The Pe…
Trackback by EGO — July 18, 2004 @ 2:14 pm
Them who live in glass houses…
Referral logs are the back-end of the blogopsphere. They tell you who is hitting your site. Some of us check them and follow them through and some of us do not. When we were building up our commentary blog before…
Trackback by Big Blog Company — July 19, 2004 @ 3:42 am
Them who live in glass houses…
Referral logs are the back-end of the blogopsphere. They tell you who is hitting your site. Some of us check them and follow them through and some of us do not. When we were building up our commentary blog before…
Trackback by Big Blog Company — July 20, 2004 @ 7:05 am