07.23.05
Coming Along
I shall spare the reader tiresome details about the progress of my website, however, I thought it worth mentioning that jackalblog now has a project page at SourceForge:
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/jackalblog/
There are no files there yet, but an alpha release will accompany the grand opening of my site.
I’d also like to take this opportunity to pitch trackbacks. What are trackbacks? They’re a nifty feature that facilitate blogging as a conversational medium. On the respondee’s blog, trackbacks appear very much like comments, however, they are actually posts in the respondent’s blog. Why not just write a post about someone else’s post? Well, you could, but then the respondee would probably never know about it. Then why not write a post and then comment on their post with a link to your post? You try telling another blogger’s readers that they should read your blog and tell me how it goes ~_^ Plus that’s a lot more work. In many cases, trackbacking is as simple as including a link to the post you are replying to. So how do you get trackback if your blog doesn’t support it?
There are a few options:
- use a different blogging service
- discover that your blogging service does support them afterall (yea!)
- use an external comment/trackback service like haloscan (my current solution)
- gripe (politely) at the developers of your blogging service
- if you coded your own blog, maybe it’s time to start coding again or to
- get jackalblog (when it comes out (sorry, I couldn’t resist)) or a similar project or even just
- read the code of jackalblog (when it comes out) or a similar project to understand the mechanism.
For further reading:
http://www.movabletype.org/trackback/beginners/
http://www.sixapart.com/pronet/docs/trackback_spec