Re: [Mod-pubsub-developer] TrackBack and blogs

[Scott A. L. <sc...@sc...>]

Asynch Messaging wrote:
> You know, theres a lot of web native pub/sub going on & I don't see
> mod_pubsub anywhere on the scene.

Maybe because real-time notifications in blogland have dubious value, at 
least right now? ;)

I actually put up a mod_pubsub app that accepts the weblogs.com ping 
from weblog software that supports it:

http://mod-pubsub.thrillerguide.com/blogtalk/

Send a weblogs.com ping to:
http://mod-pubsub.thrillerguide.com/blogtalk/blogtalk.php

...and your blog name will appear in the textarea. Extremely boring. 
Much like a real-time weblogs.com listing. The problem is, the ping 
doesn't send much interesting info.

Now, TrackBack/PingBack is /much/ more interesting. However, TrackBacks 
are usually associated with a specific post, or at most, a Movable Type 
category group. To my knowledge, most weblog software doesn't send a 
TrackBack ping when a blog is updated "in general."

Personally, I'd like to see the TrackBack ping supplant the weblogs.com 
ping, because 1) it has more information, and 2) doesn't require XML-RPC.

scottandrew


> Blogs have 'TrackBack' and 'PingBack' (an xml-rpc variant) for web
> notifications. The blog community uses 'ping' where I would have used
> 'notify', but what the heck.
> 
> I would like to see how mod_pubsub can be used with TrackBack. The format
> for TrackBack is POST with "application/x-form-www-urlencoded", using
> specific named values, so it isn't complicated.
> 
> 
> ==
> http://www.popdex.com/blog/archives/000029.html
> Popdex now offers the ability to host TrackBack threads for any arbitrary
> URL
> TrackBack pings (notifications) can now be sent to Popdex for any arbitrary
> URL, thus creating a hosted, third-party TrackBack solution for any URL on
> the web.
> 
> My idea is that maybe there will at some point be several "Trackback
> Aggregation Services", in a similar way that there are several blog update
> monitoring services, mainly weblogs.com and blo.gs.
> 
> 
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