louisgray.com - Latest Comments in louisgray.com: Trackbacks Are Still Dead. Could Tweetbacks Take Their Place?

Re: louisgray.com: Trackbacks Are Still Dead. Could Tweetbacks Take Their Place?

Roger Harris — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:17:08 -0000

Great post. Thanks Phil.

This is yet another example, to my mind, of how Twitter is going to impact how we manage our personal information management system. (This is a topic I have blogged on.) That is, microblogs and aggregators such as FriendFeed are going to be essential tools as social search provides more efficient ways (than search engines) of finding what we are looking for online.

Re: louisgray.com: Trackbacks Are Still Dead. Could Tweetbacks Take Their Place?

Phil Glockner — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:51:19 -0000

Not a replacement, no. The problem with linkbacks in general is that, especially on big blogs, they are heavily 'gamed', making them essentially useless for tracking buzz.

Re: louisgray.com: Trackbacks Are Still Dead. Could Tweetbacks Take Their Place?

Phil Glockner — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:49:56 -0000

In fact, a service called PostRank does this already for RSS feed entries, and they have started developing widgets and other things that expose this rating system.

Re: louisgray.com: Trackbacks Are Still Dead. Could Tweetbacks Take Their Place?

Morgan Brown — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:35:43 -0000

I don't think it's too hard to envision Facebook Connect providing this type of reverse notification to the blogs that get shared and posted to profiles, fan pages,and group pages on Facebook. As the sharing mechanisms become more disparate I think that services like FriendFeed that aggregate many sources under one umbrella will emerge as favored resources for bloggers to track buzz.

Re: louisgray.com: Trackbacks Are Still Dead. Could Tweetbacks Take Their Place?

Phil Glockner — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:52:00 -0000

I replied to you on the entry, Corvida. Just FYI so I don't duplicate here.

Re: louisgray.com: Trackbacks Are Still Dead. Could Tweetbacks Take Their Place?

Josh Chandler — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:17:49 -0000

This translation between text only to interaction in blogs has excited me, to even say that Trackbacks could be translated into something more interactive and engaging is something every blogger should be taking notice of, I make use of FriendFeed Comments in my Wordpress blog and it works great, I think I even remember Louis Gray having it in this blog for a while, to interact with a post, post original thought and insight and at the same time change the blogging system persona is the way things have got to keep going, the further we distance ourselves from this model of "Blog Post> Blog Comment" and move into "Blog Post> Friendfeed/Twitter Conversation" then we can have a much more versatile conversation around a post

Re: louisgray.com: Trackbacks Are Still Dead. Could Tweetbacks Take Their Place?

Corvida — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:52:00 -0000

Tweetbacks definitely have the potential to go pretty viral. I'm sure there are plenty of bloggers who receive more tweetbacks than trackbacks. However, they're also used in very different ways so I wouldn't necessarily call Tweetbacks a replacement for Trackbacks.

Re: louisgray.com: Trackbacks Are Still Dead. Could Tweetbacks Take Their Place?

Phil Glockner — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:40:02 -0000

FeedBacks. I like that sound of that. :)

Re: louisgray.com: Trackbacks Are Still Dead. Could Tweetbacks Take Their Place?

Jonathan (@jopkins) — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:36:46 -0000

Surely FeedBacks?

Re: louisgray.com: Trackbacks Are Still Dead. Could Tweetbacks Take Their Place?

Louis Gray — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:29:26 -0000

Josh, I was previously using a solution from Pat Hawks that displayed
comments from FriendFeed on the blog. Now, I utilize FF2Disqus and
that works very well, so I was able to remove the previous solution,
and speed up my page loading.

Re: louisgray.com: Trackbacks Are Still Dead. Could Tweetbacks Take Their Place?

Louis Gray — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:35:00 -0000

Post by Phil Glockner: http://friendfeed.com/eng1ne