Update: People, people, people! Don’t get it twisted. Use common sense. The Bear is not excluding trackbacks as links. Trackbacks are links and will be counted toward your TTLB rank, but trackbacks in OPEN TRACKBACK POSTS will not be counted as links.
N.Z. is trying to prevent bloggers from manipulating the system he’s set up. He explains it better than I can:
Recently, I’ve been noticing that the phenomenon of “open trackback” posts has been becoming more and more widespread across the blogosphere. Here’s a few examples of open trackback posts.It seems to me that the main motivation of such posts is simply to provide a quick and easy way for bloggers to generate links to each other, without any real regard for the substance of each other’s posts.The links, rather than symbolizing and codifying the relationship between two posts, or two blogs, have become an end in themselves.
I believe the Ecosystem has created at least part of the motivation to do open trackbacks, and this troubles me. My goal has always been to reflect, as accurately as possible, what is truly popular and interesting in the ’sphere — not distort it by creating bogus incentives for blogs to create automatic links to each other with no real meaning. (Emphasis added)
Is that clear now? I hope N.Z. maintains the distinction between Open Trackback Posts and round-ups/showcases/carnivals, but if he decides to exclude trackback links generated from the latter, I’ll be affected, too, but you won’t hear me whining.
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Blogging on Thanksgiving. It’s a sickness!
I rarely comment on “blogging standards” kind of memes, but I want to weigh in on one that’s bound to get a lot of play in the next week or two. According to Brian Scott, N.Z. Bear at The Truth Laid Bear (TTLB) will no longer accept “Open Trackback” posts as legitimate posts for link ranking purposes.
It’s about time.
Before you bloggers have a cow, hear me out. I, of all people, understand the desire to be widely-linked and widely-read. In fact, it’s human, and no one is immune from at least occasional link fishing. We’re bloggers, aren’t we?
For the past few weeks, I’ve noticed a certain amount of link manipulation among new or smaller bloggers. Fellow PM blogger Pamela of Atlas Shrugs noticed it, too:
I never understood how blogs with much less traffic than mine could be so much higher than me in the rankings until I understood the manipulation of trackbacks.
So finally I gave in and just this week I started pinging. I am up 50 notches in 2 days. Huh!
Pamela is half right. I’m a blogger with less traffic than many lower-ranked bloggers, but trackbacking to posts is not manipulation; it’s blogging. The manipulation is when people create Open Trackback posts for the sole purpose of generating incoming links to raise their TTLB rankings. I am by no means Blogger Queen, but here is my assessment, and take it for what it’s worth:
You bloggers may not believe in the “build it, and they will come” idea, but it is true. The best kind of bloggers are the “pure bloggers,” those who blog for the joy of it. I am such a blogger. I appreciate my readers and most commenters, but if my traffic slacks off or readers begin to comment less, I’d still be here almost every day self-publishing my opinions and loving it. I love the mere act of blogging, and if people surf here to read my thoughts, it’s like lemon icing on my chocolate cake.
I put in the effort to come up with interesting ideas, do some research, write (which is sometimes hard to do), edit, proofread, and publish — day after day after day. I e-mail bigger bloggers to request links [Note: Based on a response from a commenter, I need to clarify something. I didn’t start e-mailing bigger bloggers until my own blog started to take off. I was surprised to learn that most already knew who I was.], and I’ve attracted enough readers in two years to be a widely-linked blogger. It’s been hard yet rewarding work. People link and trackback to my posts, and over the years I’ve risen through the TTLB Ecosystem.
Occasionally I do round-up posts to showcase new or smaller bloggers and ask them to trackback if they want to be included in the post (another example). This is not open trackbacking. Round-up posts require a lot of linking (and work) and information sharing, and in order to prevent an overloaded inbox, I ask readers to alert me to their posts by trackbacking to mine. Trackbacks and links via substantive round-up posts are different than Open Trackback posts.
Bloggers using Open Trackback posts, particularly every week, are, in a sense, trying to game the system. Instead of creating something interesting for people to trackback to, they invite bloggers to trackback to the post just for the sake of link building. I see this happening more frequently, and I haven’t commented on it because it really wasn’t my business. Now that N.Z. will make it official TTLB policy, as a member of TTLB, it is now my business.
Many smaller bloggers didn’t like my Bloggers’ Envy post, and I suspect they won’t like this one, either. That can’t be helped. I blog about what I want, how I want, and when I want.
If you want to build a solid readership of loyal readers and linkers who come back again and again, whether they love or hate you, you’ve got to put in the work and be patient and persistent. I know it’s hard. I know you want recognition and links. But you’ve got to earn it.
In fact, if Open Trackback bloggers don’t like the Bear’s upcoming policy change, why don’t you create a new ranking system? Don’t complain. Create. Get it?
It’s up to you to come up with original, fresh, intriguing, controversial posts— the audience is there. Blog for yourself first and for them, not for links.
To elaborate on the love/hate remark, bloggers who don’t like me personally still read my blog. How do I know? They often blog about me, and I sometimes click on their lonely link in my traffic log and read the post. Then I notice that they’ve implemented certain design, layout, or traffic-generating ideas I occasionally post. They hate me but follow my blogging advice because they know I know what I’m talking about.
Now get off that computer and have a great Thanksgiving feast!
Happy Thanksgiving, and may God bless!
Comment by George L. — 11.24.05 @ 8:29 am
Happy Thanksgiving, La Shawn.
Comment by Kevin — 11.24.05 @ 8:54 am
You are cute when you are mad.
Comment by Walter E. Wallis — 11.24.05 @ 9:52 am
She is cute when she isnt mad too.
Comment by Ted Wegener — 11.24.05 @ 9:59 am
I suppose I still don’t know what “open trackbacks” are, but I will say this. I’ve been blogging for about a year and have been comfortably notched at Flappy Bird these past few weeks. Fine with me.
However, someone else in the Delaware blogosphere has gone to Large Mammal in the past two weeks and I have no idea how! I KNOW my traffic is greater. And, to boot, when I visit the blogs that he’s allegedly linked to, his blog isn’t even on their rolls?!?!? Is this what you’re talking about, La Shawn? Because I’m in agreement.
Every one of the blogs on my TTLB profile was added not because I requested to be added, but because I inserted myself into their communities. I do the same. If you participate on my blog I’ll reward you by adding you to my blogroll.
I’m all for this. I don’t mind my Flappy Bird status! I’ve even reached Adorable Little Rodent once or twice. But I only like my respective designation when I’ve EARNED it.
And, yes…Happy Thanksgiving to YOU!
Comment by Mike M. — 11.24.05 @ 10:00 am
Walter, I’m not mad at all.
Mike, an Open Trackback post is one where the blogger says something like, “This is an Open Trackback Post, so trackback” instead of blogging about a specific topic.
Comment by La Shawn — 11.24.05 @ 10:03 am
Cute? Please… La Shawn is more than cute, she is beautiful.
Excellent post La Shawn.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Comment by Randy — 11.24.05 @ 10:11 am
I see, La Shawn…like a “link party?” Hehehe…I did that a couple weeks back with the Rosa Parks thing. In fact I think many of us did!!!
Comment by Mike M. — 11.24.05 @ 10:19 am
Having see some pretty severe trackback abuse myself, I’m thinking it’s a dead technology until we can collectively figure out how to make it inaffective for abusers - possibly punitive.
All that geek stuff aside - happy Thanksgiving La Shawn.
Comment by Mean Dean — 11.24.05 @ 10:20 am
Mike, in light of your comment, I added this paragraph:
Link-fests and round-up posts are not Open Trackback posts. I don’t want to call out other bloggers, so if you want to see an example of an OT post, google “Open Trackback Post.”
Comment by La Shawn — 11.24.05 @ 10:23 am
Thanks for the clarification, LB…I’ve got it now.
I’ll have to save a piece of my own homemade pumpkin cheesecake just for you!
Comment by Mike M. — 11.24.05 @ 10:33 am
I completely agree with you. I occasionally participate in Open Trackbacks, but it is when I have spent a LOT of time doing research for a particular post, and I want to get the maximum amount of exposure for that post, with the hope that I may get some additional regular readers. When there were just a few blogs, like Wizbang, doing open trackbacks, that made a lot of sense. With everyone doing it, it does not.
I also agree that doing a trackback when you blog about another blogger’s post is just a part of blogging. It not only is ok, IMHO someone that does not do it is wrong. It is a way of letting that other blogger know you thought enough about their post that you referred to it on your own blog, and it is a way of letting that other blogger’s readers know about your post, so that they can read what you said. The fact that some of those readers may become regular readers of your blog is just a reward for doing what is right.
Comment by Don Singleton — 11.24.05 @ 11:04 am
I’ve been blogging for over a year, and I’m one of those bloggers who does it because I enjoy it. If it was based on numbers, I would have given up a while ago.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Comment by mj — 11.24.05 @ 11:31 am
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
Even though I am a newb, I completely agree with LaShawn Barbers take on the open trackback thing. I love open trackbacks as much as the next guy, and I am sure I have gained readers from it but I blog first of all because I like it. Who cares about so…
Trackback by The Real Ugly American — 11.24.05 @ 11:53 am
I have been blogging for about 7 months now. I guess you could label my blog as a “Christian Conversational” type of blog.
I have had both types of commenters visit my site; those who either love or hate what I write. There have been some heated discussions, but for the most part it’s been civil. Only had to delete some comments from people who posted ugly and derogatory things about Jesus Christ. That is never tolerated! Don’t mess with the Lord! Fortunately, it hasn’t happened very often.
Thanks for all that you write about here, La Shawn. I share your passion for blogging. I am most impressed with you for being a woman who isn’t afraid to speak her mind!
Have a Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving!
In Christ,
Christine
Comment by Christine — 11.24.05 @ 12:01 pm
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
I have been very guilty the past year of starting and stopping blogs because I did not get instant audience. It took me the whole year to figure out I blog because I love it. And for that reason I decided not to participate in the TTLB Ecosystem. I even decided to take your advice and give my “blog will” to my best friend this last time around (great post!). I will be honest and say I enjoy what readers I have and hope it continues to increase.
Now I am going to take your advice and go have Thanksgiving…
God Bless You, Helen
Comment by Helen — 11.24.05 @ 12:29 pm
“Occasionally I do round-up posts to showcase new or smaller bloggers and ask them to trackback if they want to be included in the post (another example). This is not open trackbacking. Round-up posts require a lot of linking (and work) and information sharing, and in order to prevent an overloaded inbox, I ask readers to alert me to their posts by trackbacking to mine. Trackbacks and links via substantive round-up posts are different than Open Trackback posts.”
The problem, La Shawn, is that Open Trackbacks haven’t been targeted, inline trackbacks have. Now, the reason for targeting inline was to discourage the open, but if you aren’t manually adding trackback links on your roundups, then your inline trackbacks would also be targeted.
At the same time, Open Trackback roundups also aren’t targeted. Manually inserted trackback links haven’t been targeted. What’s been “solved?”
I’ll stipulate here that I’ve been participating in the Open Trackback parties, but I’m willing to discuss whether or not there might be a better way to go about it than we’ve been doing. However, the folks who are cheering what looks like a quick and easy fix haven’t really considered what’s actually been done, and whether not it solves the problem they perceive, and what additional problems it creates.
I’ve been tracking the conversation on this throughout the blogosphere. There are also complaints about extensive blogrolls, multiple blogrolls, megacarnivals, and any site or post that has lots of links. Some want a system that assigns a greater value to links from those who are stingy with them. You’re well known to be generous with links; are you so sure that you won’t be the next target?
Again, I don’t have my heels dug in against change, but remember, The Beatles blogged: “The links you take are equal to the links you make.” Pretty sure that was it.
Anyway, hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving, La Shawn.
Cheers
Comment by Sabertooth — 11.24.05 @ 1:29 pm
No, no, no, it’s not about “inline” trackbacks, manual or automatic, etc! The focus is on Open Trackback Posts, which consist of nothing more than a few words like, “Open trackback post! Trackback to this post! It has nothing to do with people simply trackbacking to posts on topics they also blogged about.
I knew this would become too technical and open to many interpretations. But the bottom line is this: some bloggers have figured out that a bunch of people linking to an “empty” post just for the sake of it raises TTLB rankings, which any sort of linking is designed to do. This is “cheating,” in a sense. Link building should be, in this blogger’s opinion, organic. People don’t have to agree with me or N.Z., but as TTLB belongs to him, he’s free to incorporate this idea into his policy.
If this is done organically because the blogger is doing a round-up post or blogged about something others are talking about, that is different and NOT what N.Z. is trying to curb. He is a blogger and knows how important trackbacking is. There is no need to extrapolate and declare the end of the inclusion of trackback links in the Ecosystem. I fear I’m not explaining myself well, but that’s the best I can do right now.
You have a great one, too.
Comment by La Shawn — 11.24.05 @ 1:51 pm
The History & Meaning of Thanksgiving
Why and to whom are we giving thanks?
There’s more to Thanksgiving than family, feasting and football. All too often the significance of our cherished holidays is forgotten, and replaced by a rewriting of new intentions. As we celebrate this sp…
Trackback by California Conservative — 11.24.05 @ 2:39 pm
“No, no, no, it’s not about “inline†trackbacks, manual or automatic, etc! The focus is on Open Trackback Posts, which consist of nothing more than a few words like, “Open trackback post! Trackback to this post! It has nothing to do with people simply trackbacking to posts on topics they also blogged about.”
Take a look, La Shawn, inline trackbacks are exactly what are being targeted to defeat open trackbacks.
Comment by Sabertooth — 11.24.05 @ 3:45 pm
Oops. I guess the reply software didn’t like the link HTML. continued from the previous post…
N.Z. Bear wrote:
Comment by Sabertooth — 11.24.05 @ 3:48 pm
Oy! Sorry, one more try at this. Continued from the two previous posts…
Like I said, I’ve participated in open track back festivals, and I’ll concede that I’ve gotten some cheap mileage out of it. I’m not trying to deflect reasonable criticism, I’m just pointing out that the solution doesn’t do what people think it does.
If someone wanted to do a blog carnival on pre-war intelligence on Iraqi chemical weapons programs, relevant links in inline trackback sections would be ignored by this “fix.” On the other hand, open track back links that are in the original post or manually inserted aren’t affected at all.
The reason this is getting technical is because a very flawed technical solution is being applied to change a behavior. The technology doesn’t “know a good link when it sees it.” All it does is ignore inline trackbacks.
If there’s a consensus that Open track back posts ought to be ignored by the Ecosystem, I don’t think most of the participants would ultimately resist. What about an approach that promotes self-policing? Most of us self-police trackbacks at some level anyway, deleting inappropriate, non-linked, or off-topic posts. Perhaps Open Trackback participants can insert some sort of tag in those particular posts so that links in them are ignored, without nuking inline trackbacks for posts that aren’t open. Would that be satisfactory?
Comment by Sabertooth — 11.24.05 @ 3:50 pm
…and today I’m thankful for a wide-ranging world of bloggers, and in particular, one feisty, faithful, very intelligent, sister…
Happy Thanksgiving La Shawn! (and everybody else!)
Comment by Mark La Roi — 11.24.05 @ 5:25 pm
LaShawn, you rock! Good call on the trackback parties. People need to focus on providing worthwhile content.
Happy Thanksgiving, and G-d bless.
Comment by Asher - Dreams Into Lightning — 11.24.05 @ 6:04 pm
Sabertooth, an Open Trackback Post looks like this:
http://thepoliticalteen.net/2005/10/14/optrfri
The nature of the OTP is that it’s ONLY for trackback-fest purposes. It has nothing to do with the structure (inline or otherwise) of the trackback itself.
Comment by La Shawn — 11.24.05 @ 6:08 pm
La Shawn Explains It Better Than I Ever Could
As we all know, the TTLB Ecosystem is going to be nixing the trackback party as a tool to increase a blogger’s rankings. I’ve commented on this here and here. I said (or TRIED to, rather) that I kind of agree with the policy on the one hand, but on…
Trackback by Iowa Voice — 11.24.05 @ 7:34 pm
I’m not sure I understand the distinction you’re making, La Shawn. Not trying to be difficult here, but what N.Z. Bear said was “when the Ecosystem scans a blog’s front page for links, it now simply ignores any inline trackback sections that are found, while still counting the links within posts or on a blog’s blogroll.”
In the case of the post you linked, that’s everything between “» Trackbacks for this post” and “by Ian.” If there were 500 links inserted manually, on edit, above the inline trackbacks section, they would all be counted as “links within posts.”
In the case of another post from The Political Teen, linked below, which is about Dick Cheney and is not an open trackback post, the Ecosystem also ignores everything between “» Trackbacks for this post” and “by Ian,” even though the one trackback there is also about Cheney.
http://thepoliticalteen.net/2005/11/24/cnn-fires/
Comment by Sabertooth — 11.24.05 @ 7:56 pm
The True Meaning Of Thanksgiving
Christmas Season starts this week beginning with Thanksgiving. While I was looking for something to post this Thursday I ran across this article and decided now is a good time to share it. From The Branson Courier: Thanksgiving is all about to whom th…
Trackback by Pajamas Media / Stuck On Stupid Blog — 11.24.05 @ 7:58 pm
Banning Open Trackbacks
Trackback by Keith D. Milby :: blog — 11.24.05 @ 8:37 pm
Regarding the TTLB and Open Trackback Posts
I wanted to get in a couple things regarding the TTLB and Open track back posts before I get too relaxed on my blog vacation. As you know NZ has unofficially announced that our open trackbacks are being filtered…
Trackback by The Blue State Conservatives — 11.24.05 @ 8:54 pm
I quit the open trackback crud/parties a while ago on both my blogs and have posted about it several times. I am a marsupial on one and a rodent on the other. I would rather concentrate on consistent, quality postings then get caught up with the rat race. It started taking the fun out of it. Lower life bloggers like myself agree with you too! http://hooahwife.blogspot.com & http://elephantimycoffee.com
This is sick and shows how addicted we are - blogging on Thanksgiving!
Comment by Greta (Hooah Wife) — 11.24.05 @ 10:57 pm
I plead guilty to blogging on Thanksgiving day. Yesterday afternoon I put up five posts in a three hour time span.
1- to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving
2- A birthday note to my late Mom(whose birthday it was)
3- My daily knucklehead award
4- Some Florida news. Elected Public service commissioners.
5- A plea for help so a Mom and son could be re-united for Christmas.
Posts 3 and 4 could have been skipped. The other three I feel were worthwhile, #5 I feel is a good cause. The wife was napping, the turkey was in the oven, I blogged instead of watching Detroit get creamed by the Atlanta.
How about those television networks who showed canibal movies all day yesterday?
Anyway belated happy thanksgiving Lashawn. Keep on blogging, I enjoy your posts.
Bill
Comment by Bill — 11.25.05 @ 7:12 am
A Speculum’s View of TTLB Ecosystem Link Sluttage
NZ Bear is trying to devalue link-sluttage. That’s good. But his approach is too complicated.
There’s a relatively easy way to do this. Keep the Link and Traffic definitions as they are.
However, determine Ecosystem ranking on somethi…
Trackback by aaron — 11.25.05 @ 7:28 am
Happy Thanksgiving.
Comment by donsurber — 11.25.05 @ 8:05 am
More opinions from around the ’sphere at LaShawn’s site, and linking from N.Z.’s site. Aaron says he’ll devolve for a while as a result, but isn’t too worried.
Pingback by Myopic Zeal — 11.25.05 @ 8:45 am
LaShawn,
First, I think this is a good idea, as I’ve noted on my blog today.
I have to go with Sabertooth on this one. While NZ is trying to hit the open trackback parties, he is also targeting inline trackbacks. The distinction is a bit fuzzy, and it is completely appropriate that he hit both. Sites that do inline trackbacks essentially had the effect of making their trackbacks look like manual links written by the blogger, for the sake of the TTLB ranking.
Way to go, N.Z. This will definitely help to make the rankings more reflective of reality in terms of content, traffic and linkage.
Eric
Comment by Eric — 11.25.05 @ 8:47 am
Favorite Posts this Thanksgiving Week
Since I didn’t post yesterday I’d like to do a round up post of some of the posts I enjoyed this week. To begin with let’s start with La Shawn’s post about those Trackback Parties we see going on. I
Trackback by Anonymous — 11.25.05 @ 11:51 am
Hey La Shawn, Happy Thansgiving you fabulous girl you!
xoxo, Pamela
Comment by Pamela — 11.25.05 @ 1:08 pm
Honest Ranking in the TTLB EcoSystem
NZ Bear Killing the Trackback Parties, this according to Jay at Stop the ACLU. Don Surber has the details. I never understood how blogs with much less traffic than mine could be so much higher than me in the rankings
Trackback by Atlas Shrugs — 11.25.05 @ 1:13 pm
Open Trackbacks and TTLB ecosystem / Open Track Back!
Forgive me for speaking for the rest of you and please correct me if I am wrong. The reason we participate in Open Trackbacks is to drive readers to our sites. Yes we do this because we love it but we also want folks to read our fantastic, insightful, …
Trackback by The Real Ugly American — 11.25.05 @ 1:31 pm
Understanding Open Trackbacks
I said I’d had my last word on this Open Trackbacks then, but then Lashawn Barber said something and I had to respond. First of all she says:
People, people, people! Don’t get it twisted. Use common sense. The Bear is not excluding trackbacks as li…
Trackback by Adam's Blog — 11.25.05 @ 1:34 pm
Not to be snarky, but if NZ “decides to exclude trackback links generated from the latter,” you won’t be “effected”. You will be “affected”. Effect is a noun.
Merci beaucoup for the heads up. I usually get it right but sometimes can’t remember the rule. And there’s nothing snarky about correcting my grammar or my spelling. FYI, I LOVE typo nitpickers.
- Admin
Comment by jenney — 11.25.05 @ 2:44 pm
I already attempted to send a trackback on this but for some reason it didnt go through. If I end up with a comment and a trackback please delete one 8).
Forgive me for speaking for the rest of you and please correct me if I am wrong. The reason we participate in Open Trackbacks is to drive readers to our sites. Yes we do this because we love it but we also want folks to read our fantastic, insightful, and unique opinions. At least we like to think they are. We are not doing it to game the system. Are you?
And it works! If your topic is interesting, if your headline grabs the readers attention they will click the link and start reading. That is the whole idea behind Open Ttrackbacks. No one is forced to click on your link and no one is forced to follow a link back to the Open Trackback provider.
I certainly, and again speaking for others we are very appreciative to fellow bloggers who provide Open Trackbacks either weekly or in some cases daily. The Political Teen who alone has sent hundreds of readers my way has been a godsend for my fledgling blog. Others like Don Surber and Basil who do daily Open Trackbacks, and the entire Open Trackback Alliance who alternate days between them are providing a fantastic service to bloggers and readers alike. They match folks who have something interesting to say with folks who want something interesting to read it. If they get rewarded by driving readership to their own blogs they deserve it.
Now before disagreeing with La Shawn I want to say I do not believe she meant any offense to Open Trackbackers and her post was meant to be strictly constructive. I know from personal experience and she has posted numerous times that she believes in helping new bloggers. So please understand my following comments are also meant to be constructive.
More here:
http://therealuglyamerican.blogspot.com/2005/11/open-trackbacks-and-ttlb-ecosystem.html
Comment by The Ugly American — 11.25.05 @ 3:23 pm
The Open Trackback System: I’ve played a little with it, but more often than not I’ll write about something the blog I’m linking to doesn’t agree with, and they’ll delete me! It happened today! Please visit my blog and check the comments that go along with the post “You Don’t Know Jack.” You’ll see what I mean!
Comment by Dave Lucas — 11.26.05 @ 12:15 am
Ms. Barber - Like you, I am more of an essayist than a blogger; my posts are longer and I post 3 - 5 time a week, not a day. I have gradually risen to Mammalian status, but not through linking. (Actually, I rather regretted givng up the Marauding Marsupial status, as it so described me!)
I think Mr. Bear is providing a valuable servie, and his dedication to preserving the INTENT of the rankings is remarkable.
Comment by Peter Porcupine — 11.26.05 @ 11:49 pm
Au contraire! A blogger is someone who blogs, whether they write essays or one-paragraph posts. My posts tend to be longer because as I write, I discover I have more things to say. Only after I’ve rearranged paragraphs does a post have organization like an essay. Thanks for visiting, Peter.
Comment by La Shawn — 11.27.05 @ 8:26 am
“Like lemon icing on my chocolate cake”
Irascible tomcat Mr. Gato’s companion animal, Barry Campbell of enrevanche, suggests algorithm tweaking may explain our blog’s recent precipitous rise in the TTLB Ecosystem, even as his own blog status has risen from Marauding Marsupial to Large Mam…
Trackback by sisu — 11.27.05 @ 4:22 pm
The Ecosystem Laid Bare
The ecosystem is designed to give folks an idea of what is going on out in the blogosphere, and open trackbacks introduce distorting effects. Do I benefit from a bit of that distortion? Probably.
Trackback by A Blog For All — 11.28.05 @ 1:00 pm