August 22, 2005

What's a trackback?

Christian Crumlish

On the Well's blog conference we were discussing trackback, who likes 'em and who doesn't, and a few new bloggers confessed that they didn't quite grok what trackbacks were really all about. This prompted zorca, aka Suzanne Stefanac, to take a crack at demystifying trackback at her relatively new blog, Dispatches from Blogistan (trackback demystified).

Stefanac's writing a book by the same name for Peachpit and from the looks of the outline it should be a fascinating read.

(Oh, and, er, I'd say that even if she wasn't planning to interview me for it.)

Posted by xian at August 22, 2005 7:24 AM

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