BackTrack
Shelley
Powers: In each individual posting page is a section
labeled with Sticky Strands and listing all of the TB pings the
posting issued. The functionality I added today takes those pings,
follows them back to the posted weblog, and then lists all of the
trackbacks that weblog posting has received.
Let's give it a try. For ever trackback I've ever gotten, I've appended a [more] which will go forewards. Now I've gone back and added [back] which will go backwards.
This is perhaps best explained by example. Go here and click on [back]. Repeat with the last back on the page. Do it again, and again, and again, and again.
Tracking the Backing of Backtrack on Trackback
Say that three times fast... http://weblog.burningbird.net/fires/000822.htm I've made a minor change to the Backtrack code that should allow any weblog that supports a variation of [ping)?__mode=rss to work, and that returns valid RSS. This is implemented by default with Movable Type's trackback, including the stand alone TB server. And, this also now includes Sam Ruby's weblog, which was one that wasn't working yesterday, as you can see from the following post: http://weblog.burningbird.net/fires/000766.htm. Click on the Sticky Strand for Sam's post to see it in action. Sam implemented his own version of Backtrack, but his also allows one to 'drill through' to the backtracked items for each level, thought the "back" link. In someways I've stolen this functionality because when you backtrack one of Sam's postings, his implementation of backtrack comes along, so to speak. I thought about adding this support to my variation of Backtrack. What it would take would be to follow each link that's returned within Backtrack, and use RDF/RSS auto-discovery to find the trackback link for the posting. For example, following one of Ben Hammersley's posting, such as this one and looking at the source shows the block of embedded RDF/XML that Trackback uses for AutoDiscovery. I... [more]Trackback from Burningbird at
TrackBack in motion.
Interesting work is afoot in the world of TrackBack and other related concepts. This experimentation has all been very intriguing and worthwhile in our discovery and understanding of the net effects of two-way hyperlinking systems and their social effects. In reviewing this work I'm beginning to see some emerging issues and topics coming into focus.... [more]Trackback from tima thinking outloud. at
Well, a few days ago I posted a comment on my blog questioning the value of Trackback and Pingback. I thought about it some more, and implemented Trackback over the last two days. My blog is a custom thing, written by me in Smalltalk - and it turns out that Trackback only required a small amount of code! I'm onto Pingback now, and expect to add that shortly. Thanks for inspiring me!
Posted by James Robertson at
Sam Ruby: This is perhaps best explained by example. Go here and click on [back]. Repeat with the last back on the page. Do it again, and again, and again, and again. Yes Sam, it is. And once I saw the example, I got it. Very...
Excerpt from not quite random at
Burningbird's Threadneedle Strategy
I wanted to provide the details of my overall Threadneedle strategy to fill in some of the gaps in the material I've supplied to this point for comments, Trackback, and Backtrack. I also want to provide instructions on how to incorporate some of this into non-Movable Type environments. My goal is to encourange and track conversations related to, and surrounding, any one of my posts. Ultimately, from a Threadneedle perspective, this effort will add my thread into others in a distributed conversation open to any interested party. This multi-step guide should provide the detail about comments, trackback, backtrack and related technologies, so that you can incorporate much (or all) of this information within your weblog, regardless of tool. Read on... Step 1 The first step in Threadneedle enabling this weblog was to enable comments. Comments allow people to join the conversation associated with a post, even if they don't have a weblog (or prefer to be anonymous). The use of comments was further refined by the "Recent Comments" functionality. Recent Comments allows my readers to see where new comments are occurring so that they don't have to hunt around among my posts -- even older posts -- looking for new... [more]Trackback from Burningbird at
BackTrack. Shelley Powers: In each individual posting page is a section labeled with Sticky Strands and listing all of the TB pings the posting issued. The functionality I added today takes those pings, follows them back to the posted weblog, and...
Excerpt from Lasipalatsi at
Sam, when I try the [back] links, I end up with a 500 server error, trying to get this up and working, any suggestions would be appreciated (as well as something working I can look at :) )
Posted by John Beimler at
John - fixed. Python is on a different location on the RackSpace provided machine than the ServerBench machine, so the #! line at the top of the CGI was wrong... Oops!
Posted by Sam Ruby at
Sam Ruby
I don’t remember much coming from itI remember being called a dead end until I implemented it. And, the very next day after I implemented it, I actually found something useful to do with it....Excerpt from phil ringnalda dot com: Nice that __mode=rss is doing someone some good: Comments at
Up and Down the Ladder
Stuart Langridge:- the original purpose of Pingback was to enable a user to travel back up the ladder of links... [more]Trackback from From the Orient at