<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>Am 20.09.2005 um 22:13 schrieb Patrick R. Michaud:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 03:04:33PM -0400, Russell Bailey wrote:</DIV> <BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>* Outgoing and incoming trackback support. (Relatively easy with a </DIV><DIV>standalone trackback implementation- the question is just where to </DIV><DIV>integrate it.)</DIV> <BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Could someone give me a quick explanation of what a trackback is</DIV><DIV>and how it works? I've tried reading various articles about it</DIV><DIV>in the past and I still don't have a good concept of what it's</DIV><DIV>supposed to do or how it works. :-(</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Pm</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>I will try.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Suppose someone has a blog with an article A. I read it and write about this blog entry A in my blog. So I want refer to blog A and notify blog A that I'm writing about it. So my blog (entry B) sends a trackback ping back to blog A and says: here is a entry B that is related to your blog entry A. Blog A recognize it and shows a link to my related blog entry B on the original site.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You have to do two things:</DIV><DIV>a) provide a trackback link for each of your blog entries, recognize if someone pings your blog entries and show the blog refering to yours</DIV><DIV>b) send trackback pings to other blogs which you are refering to </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>See here for implementation details: <A href="http://www.sixapart.com/pronet/docs/trackback_spec">http://www.sixapart.com/pronet/docs/trackback_spec</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Sebastian</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"></FONT></BODY></HTML>