I worked on a couple of new features for this blog over the past couple of weeks. The first is an About Page, with information about the site and its author. It’s still incomplete, but at least it’s a start. The other is that I’ve added Trackback support. I’m also working on support for Pingback.
Trackbacks and Pingbacks are methods for weblogs to recognize when another site has referenced them. For example, I’ll ping a story at cafelog, and you should be able to see a link back to this site, with an excerpt of this blog entry.
Pingback Added " I’ve hacked together support for Pingbacks. There are pros and cons to Trackback and Pingback. Pingback is more automated. Trackback has wider support because..."
Pingback Testing " Sam Ruby (who I really should add to my blogroll) is testing excerpts for his pingbacks. Here ya go, Sam, excerpt away! BTW, my..."
Ping-O-Matic XML-RPC " We finally found time to do some more work on Ping-O-Matic, and have implemented an XML-RPC interface. You can now send a standard weblogs.com..."
The Conversational Web " A lot of blog development of late has been directed towards establishing connections between multiple weblogs via mechanisms such as Trackback, Pingback, and friends...."
Trackback vs MetaWeblog API " When I implemented Trackback support here, one snag I ran up against is that I typically post to my website via the MetaWeblog API..."
New Features
I worked on a couple of new features for this blog over the past couple of weeks. The first is an About Page, with information about the site and its author. It’s still incomplete, but at least it’s a start. The other is that I’ve added Trackback support. I’m also working on support for Pingback.
Trackbacks and Pingbacks are methods for weblogs to recognize when another site has referenced them. For example, I’ll ping a story at cafelog, and you should be able to see a link back to this site, with an excerpt of this blog entry.
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" I’ve hacked together support for Pingbacks. There are pros and cons to Trackback and Pingback. Pingback is more automated. Trackback has wider support because..."
" Sam Ruby (who I really should add to my blogroll) is testing excerpts for his pingbacks. Here ya go, Sam, excerpt away! BTW, my..."
" We finally found time to do some more work on Ping-O-Matic, and have implemented an XML-RPC interface. You can now send a standard weblogs.com..."
" A lot of blog development of late has been directed towards establishing connections between multiple weblogs via mechanisms such as Trackback, Pingback, and friends...."
" When I implemented Trackback support here, one snag I ran up against is that I typically post to my website via the MetaWeblog API..."