Back chatter
Ken Coar:
Which makes me curious about the effect on the Web as each new
post generates referrals, which then cause scanbacks to verify
links, causing referrals on the original site.. Is there going to
come a point at which the Web log software spends more time reading
log posts, and generating more traffic, than its human masters
do?
I certainly hope so.
Update: Ken Coar: I'm curious about Sam's position; I hope he'll explain it.
Hmmm... perhaps an example would help?
Trackback in the saddle again
There's been a lot of thinking about TrackBacks lately, with lots of variants coming up, and being coded. It's...Excerpt from Ben Hammersley.com at
Blogupdates
I seem to have missed some interesting developements in the blogworld off late( apart from the Google Blogger thing) -- Like Dave Sifry's enhancement to the top interesting blogs; Blogstreet's Visual Neighbourhood (though I couldn't quite figure out the use. Something using Geo-tags would have been better); Dave Winer's idea... [more]Trackback from Nilesh's Weblog at
When the ant trails start to leave themselves
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