I’ve been playing with IceRocket’s new Link Tracker script for a couple weeks now, as you may have noticed on three of my blogs (View from the Isle, Qumana Blog, and Qumana Investors). Yesterday it went live an final. There are two way to implement it. If you run your own server and it can run php scripts, then you can choose a local server-side option. This one should be faster and more configurable then what I’m running which is a JavaScript and iFrame version. So set up. For the way I’m doing it, it takes just a couple minutes to do.
I’ve written some instructions on the Qumana blog for how to implement it on Blogware-powered blogs.
Now the question you might be asking yourself is, why pray tell, should I do this? Because it’s so freaking cool! No, wait, that’s the geek in me talking. The reason why is that this is an easy way to gauge the buzz/splash/etc your posts are making in the Blogosphere and let your readers/visitors know too. Sure, like most folks, I’d say the majority of your links will show 0 Linking posts or 1 Linking posts, but that’s okay. For the times when you do have a really cool post … it’s all there. This doesn’t replace trackbacks or the RSS-powered searches you have going, this is just another tool in your kit. And it doesn’t rely on people pinging on trackbacks to show buzz.
So go! Go now—Link Tracker – IceRocket!
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Yeah. I was playing with it today too.
http://www.feedblog.org/2005/08/icerocket_link_.html
Comment by Kevin Burton — August 4, 2005 @ 8:08 pm
Yeah it is a tad sluggish … but it still is cool.
Comment by Tris Hussey — August 5, 2005 @ 11:36 am