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TrackBack Growing Up

It’s been a great week for TrackBack: First, PRWeb, one of the most popular sources for news releases on the web, has just announced that they’ve added support for TrackBack to all the press releases on the site. This shows...

Submitting TrackBack as an Internet Standard

In 2002, Ben and Mena Trott had an idea for how blogging systems could communicate with one another more effectively about the plethora of content being created. They dubbed the idea "TrackBack" and they implemented it in Movable Type. What...

It's all about Context

Andrew Orlowski writes about TrackBack as the catastrophe that is ruining Google searches and cites the "empty" TrackBack listing pages that are returned as evidence. I place the word empty in quotes since these pages do actually contain content (albeit...

A Beginner's Guide to TrackBack

By popular demand, we wrote up A Beginner's Guide to TrackBack. Note that if you are using TrackBack in a method we have not illustrated, please feel free to ping the article using the TrackBack URL on the bottom of...

Topic Auto-Discovery

The introduction of topic servers like the Internet Topic Exchange and Reversible started me thinking about TrackBack, and how to make it easier for sites like these to gain traction and be used by non-technical users. Currently, the sites are...

TrackBack, Moving Forward

Timothy Appnel has summarized and expanded upon the many ideas and suggestions for the next generation of TrackBack. He's also providing a repository for other comments on the issue. Here are my thoughts on some of the issues raised in the proposal.

More threading

A static output of TrackBack threading on the Safari post from the other day....