{"id":574,"date":"2005-06-01T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-01T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=574"},"modified":"2005-06-01T14:59:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-01T14:59:00","slug":"574","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.org\/trackback\/beginners\/\">trackback<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine just asked me this question. So as I&#8217;ve spent 10 writing a quick description in an email, I might as well post it here.<\/p>\n<p>The original idea of trackback is to help find out who links to you.<\/p>\n<p>Your blog publishes a URL which I can &#8220;ping&#8221;, ie. which alerts your blog to the fact that I have a post on mine that links to it.<\/p>\n<p>Trackback is a kind of automation of the practice of posting a comment on someone&#8217;s blog saying &#8220;You&#8217;re wrong. And I responded over at &#8230;. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Normally, the blog which receives the trackback shows a short snippet of the responding post.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s still heavily used, but might be falling out fashion due<br \/>\n<br \/>to the blog search engines. If I respond to you on my blog I still<br \/>\n<br \/>need to find your trackback URL and ping it, often manually. OTOH, as you&#8217;re already probably using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/\">Technorati<\/a> etc. to find people who link to you anyway, maybe I don&#8217;t need to bother.<\/p>\n<p>I could be wrong about this. And trackback is possibly still playing an important (and increasingly popular) part in the ecosystem. I have no statistics to back me up. It&#8217;s just that people aren&#8217;t &#8220;talking&#8221; about trackback much &#8230; OTOH maybe it just works \ud83d\ude42<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is trackback? A friend of mine just asked me this question. So as I&#8217;ve spent 10 writing a quick description in an email, I might as well post it here. The original idea of trackback is to help find out who links to you. Your blog publishes a URL which I can &#8220;ping&#8221;, ie. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[473],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}