Software and People

I've got so used to the notion of blogs as two-way conversations, that I feel off-balance and strangely powerless when faced with a blog that supports neither comments or trackbacks.

In this case, I felt that I'd like to let the readers of this post about usage patterns of Wikis and blogs in education know about my blog post from a few days ago on a similar topic. Usually, I'd just issue a trackback (which seems the polite thing to do). If trackback is not available, I'd leave a comment. Faced with neither, what should I do?

As a relative newcomer to the world of blogs, I skipped the period before comments and trackbacks were commonplace - is there an accepted protocol for connecting blogs where these tools don't exist?


If neither comments nor trackback are available, I link to the post that I comment on, publish to my server and click on the link. This way my URL shows up as a referer in their access log. If they don't read that, they're out of luck.
That sounds a fair approach. Thanks.
This doesn't answer your question, but I thought you might find it interesting: INFORMATION INFECTIONS IN BLOGSPACE
Neat article, thanks. I've always had this twitchy feeling that I want to a be a producer, not a consumer - a writer rather than just a reader.

The proposed style of ranking seems to align more with my view, rather than rewarding journalistic "scoop" tactics which replace creativity with gossip.

TrackBack to http://radio.javaranch.com/frank/addTrackBack.action?entry=1088323379000