A little esoteric but I chose to post it on the my Home page as well as the Radio Category page, due to the low volume of Radio traffic at this point.
This feature seems useful as more users particiapte. I hope that Jack Mancilla watches this one closely on our behalf.
Why TrackBack?.
More on TrackBack for KM. If Gammel and Mower both think there is something useful in TrackBack who am I to argue? I don't undersand it, but I'm open minded about it. [Blunt Force Trauma]
» I didn't get it at first either, and nor has everyone I've mentioned it to.
What makes TrackBack so important is, I think, the following:
Imagine that I read someone like Jon Udell (which I do) and I find an item of his particularly noteworthy or relevant to me. I post it from my news page and add some editorial content of my own.
But if, like me, you are a relatively new blogger then maybe very few people read my item and nobody bothers to click through to Jon's original. My item never appears in his list of referrers.
This means Jon, likely, will not know that it exists. We could imagine further that Jon would have liked to know what comments I made but he never gets the opportunity.
TrackBack addresses this problem. It allows me as the author of an item to "ping" the original during the act of publishing. This ping does not require someone to read my item and then click through to his. Simply by publishing he is notified that someone has referenced him.
I think this is a very powerful idea and will help to get new bloggers into the space. For those with interesting things to say the time to migrate from the fringe to the centre will be drastically reduced.
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
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