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Tom Coates:

April 29, 2005 by Michael Boyle

Tom Coates:

Trackback is dead. Are Comments dead too?. It’s funny – I read this the other day and largely agreed with Tom – I turned trackbacks off long ago. At the same time, I know of at least one implementation of trackback – YULBlog, by Patrick Tanguay, that is very useful and easy to use. But then I read a post that Patrick wrote (the day before Tom’s post, incidentally) about problems that have crept in to that implementation as well – which led someone (who wasn’t really clear on the whole concept of tb) to “leave” YULBlog.

The problem with trackback, though, is also its strength. I can think of wonderful implementations of the trackback concept that take things like a blogroll, contacts/friends from Flickr, and other such data as a sort of whitelist that would indicate to a publishing system that a particular trackback ping does in fact come from a qualified individual. But trackbacks from people that a blogger already reads – and has to some extent publicly announced that he/she reads or knows – is a pretty thin concept. I get a much bigger kick out of knowing that someone I don’t already know has enjoyed a post enough to link to it. So it’s a seemingly insurmountable problem – trackback could be workable within a smaller, self-identified community – but that’s also the kind of environment in which it’s less useful, and in fact could serve to heighten the “echo-chamber” effect that does seem to affect the weblog space to some extent.

Tags: Blogging

Via Wired News:

April 29, 2005 by Michael Boyle

Via Wired News:

The Wired 40 for 2005. Lots of big companies with big ideas here. Proof positive that the next big thing may come from one of the bigcos – but not a guarantee of that by any stretch of the imagination.

Tags: Trends, Wired

If you like baseball,

April 28, 2005 by Michael Boyle

If you like baseball,

you’ll love Michael Lewis’ article on two unlikely young players: Absolutely, Power Corrupts. The larger question: is the end of steroids (assuming we’re there) the beginning of a renaissance of small-ball?

Tags: Sports

Since it was published,

April 27, 2005 by Michael Boyle

Since it was published,

a few people have noted misgivings about the article by Janice Fraser that I linked to last week; notably Andre Torrez, maker of a great number of really cool things on the net. See also Kottke’s A whole new internet?. I still like Fraser’s piece, but it doesn’t capture the whole story – the story you already know if you’re a maker of things on the internet. But for a non-maker audience – reader, community participant, casual browser – I think the piece does have merit and is still worth a read.

Tags: Kottke, Tagging, Web 2.0

The WiFi everywhere:

April 26, 2005 by Michael Boyle

The WiFi everywhere:

The Boston Globe is running a good story about the spread of WiFi throughout cities: The Year of Living Wirelessly.

Tags: Wireless Data

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