Trackbacking
In brilliantcorners, Bill makes a illuminatred exposition about the possible use of trackback:
Picture it this way: if all those weblogs and other sites on that Blogdex list had TrackBack built into their weblog software, had it enabled (auto-discovery would be ideal), and cited the weblog/site where they found the link, you could ultimately trace the link to its initial source (in this case, a post on MeFi). Instead of the flat list of links that Blogdex shows, you could have a massive, almost fractal tree of links showing the progress of who linked to that story, and who linked to them, and so on; the trunk would be the post on MeFi, and the branches would split and split from there.
And since I should be sleeping, I leave this here for a later day. But the interesting concept of trackbacking to describe and map the topology of links is intriguing.
Comments
More than intriguing! I think it's only a matter of time!
Posted by: Ailina | April 10, 2003 1:55 AM