reverse blog and email blog post pinging
The other day I posted on being able to read a blog in reverse, that is in chronological order…well if you are a blogger user, Adivina can help you out.
Another thing I noticed at Adivina’s blog is you can also choose to see all posts collapsed on expanded…these are 2 awesome features.
Coming to another point from another post, what I like about trackback is that it doesn’t have to be used to let people know you are talking about them, it can also be used to say “I posted this and I’m ping you so you can check it out”.
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The probem I pointed out in another post is that blogs don’t have a homepage trackback, so you have to choose one of their blog posts, usually the about page (if this is published in a blog post).
The other option is to leave a comment on the about page, or simply just email the person, or leave a comment on their message board eg. 3 bubbles, gabbly, mobber, chatango, cbox, zonkboard, chat trick, etc…
But what I want to do is simply publish a post and let others know about it at the same time…a homepage trackback of some sort is in order.
Or maybe we could have an email field in our blog post drafts…before we publish a post, just fill in the email addresses of the people you want to send this post to, just like we do for trackbacks.
Example
I know John from FreshBlog has posted on reverse blog posts, so I’ll trackback him to let him know I’m also talking about it as it may be of interest.
Another reason I trackback him could be to let him know that I’m just simply talking about him (a courtesy thing)…if I include a link to his blog post he will probably know I’m talking about him anyway if he follows ego feeds.
Now I want 3spots to also know about this blog post as it will be of interest, but (I think) 3spots hasn’t written about this before, so how do I let them know.
Do I look for a similar blog post on their blog to trackback, do I just trackback the about page (if it is in post format), what if they don’t have trackback, what if they don’t have a chatboard, then I’ll just have to send an email.
In this instance it would be good if I could enter the 3spots email in an email field in my blog post before I publish it.
When I publish my post, an email automatically is sent to 3spots to tell them to have a look at this post, or maybe the post can be contained in the email message.
3spots may subscribe to my blog anyway, so I wouldn’t do this often, but I feel this post is of importance, and I want to make sure they see it, so I want to push it to them.
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I’ve encountered the same problem, most of the time I could tb to a post that had related content, hoping everybody has tb email notifications. but the URL I wrote was the domain URL…maybe it’s not very ethical?
Do you clean up your about page comments and TBs sometimes?
PS: I am subcribed to your feeds.
Comment by 3spots — May 21, 2006 @ 9:06 am
3spots,
Are you saying that you included a homepage URL in the trackback field in your blog post at time of publishing?
The only thing I have put in the trackback field in my blog posts are trackback URL’s, I’ve never tried putting in a normal URL, like a blog post, or blog homepage…what happens, does it ping them somehow?
I moderate comments/tb’s so I don’t have to clean them up…haven’t looked at my about page for a while.
In my RSS comments I get comments and tb’s, and sometimes I get pings, I don’t know what these pings are, maybe they happen when someone puts a normal blog post URL in the tb field, not sure…actually this is probably incorrect.
When I first started my blog, each time I linked to one of my past posts, that past post would have a ping back from my current post…I asked my blog host to disable this, but maybe I shouldn’t have because if you are looking at a past post you could click on the ping back to see a more current post about a similar topic.
Instead now I have to go back to these past posts and re-edit a link eg. Update - see more.
Actually I have a whole post on this issue, where if you link to past posts, the past post will automatically publish the link to the current post in the body of the past post and not the comments/tb/ping field.
Check it out:
Comment by Johnt — May 22, 2006 @ 2:14 am