When Ben and Mena came to Seabury, they blew our minds by demoing a heap of things you can do with TrackBack that are so cool I can’t even describe them. I was slackjawed, and not in good note-taking form. But just as is the case with Doc and David, we couldn’t make head or tail of how to make it work for our sites.
At the time, I asked Ben and Mena please to look into posting what David calls “TrackBack for Dummies” (indeed, most of MT’s documentation could benefit from a little dummie-fication). They agreed that a more basic introduction would strengthen the site. It would help users who are already interested in Moveable Type become more effective users, and increase their satisfaction with what’s already a fantastic application. Which is usually good for business.
Posted by AKMA at March 18, 2003 08:37 AM | TrackBackI really ought to be able to write one, but I'm afraid I'm in too deep to know what needs more explaining. Is it basic post-to-post TB, or funky things you can do with post-to-category or category-to-post? Is it the philosophy, the "when should I or shouldn't I?", or the practical details of "if you want to send a ping to just one post, start with your MT bookmarklet, since it'll take care of looking up the TB URL for you, if you're pinging more than one you'll need to find the TrackBack URL for each and copy-n-paste it into the URLs to ping textarea unless you use the unutterably evil autodiscovery"?
Posted by: Phil Ringnalda at March 18, 2003 11:42 PMI am new
Posted by: New at January 13, 2004 04:54 AM