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I have some things to do. I have had them to do all day. [updated again 2004-05-04-18:17 -0700]

One of the things there are to do in this category is start TrackBacks.  It is more mystery technology, but I am going to start by pinging.  I don't know how to do it automatically, but there is a web form that will let me do it.

The way it goes: I will publish new blog entries to my site so I can use the pages to find out what my permalinks are.  Then I can pick entries that refer to sites that have trackbacks and trackback those entries -- let those sites record that I have an entry that discusses their entry.

To accomplish this, I must supply the trackback link of the other site's entry (found by a special incantation on that site) along with my site's name, the title of my entry, and the permalink of my entry.  I also provide a short summary that provides a reader at the other site with some idea of what my entry has to say about the subject.

This is just for the pinging part.  Then I need a way to make it more automatic and operated from my own machine, even if using my browser.  But for now, I just want to see a real trackback from me to some article I've spotted and discussed.

[later - 2004-05-04: I have rewritten this entry to make more sense to even me. I have also succeeded in establishing track backs from discussed entries elsewhere to discussing entries here (got that?). After the first two, and confirmation that it worked, I tired quickly.  This is not something that I want to be doing by hand.  I want a computer-mediated approach that doesn't require me to work so hard.  I also don't want to have to monkey with any of the weblog software that I use and that doesn't run on any computer where I can modify it.  And even if it did, I don't think that is the approach I should try first.]
posted by Dennis at 5/3/2004 06:41:59 PM