Comments on: Ecosystem Blocking Open Trackbacks

By: Soccer Dad

Soccer Dad — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:57:13 +0000

Growing gills Mirty's Place is wondering why she's grown gills and is now an amphibian. A couple of post at Outside the Beltway help explain what's going on. One tells that the (Truth Laid Bear) Ecosystem Blocking Open Trackbacks. The argument against...

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 02:11:02 +0000

Well, this is exactly why I don't pay any attention to the TTLB. I believe firmly in making my own way and not inflating my own numbers, which I see TTLB ecosystem, Blogrolls such as Blogs4Bush, etc to be. Granted, I'm having a hard time growing, but then again, to me the point of blogging isn't wrapped up in numbers or making the A, B or C list... That's just me.

By: Will Franklin

Will Franklin — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:50:51 +0000

I got tired of the trackback parties, so I generally think this is a good move.

By: Searchlight Crusade

Searchlight Crusade — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 06:53:47 +0000

Links and Minifeatures 11 23 Wednesday

Carnival of the Vanities is up at Don Surber's. Recommended posts:

By: The Moderate Voice

The Moderate Voice — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 05:18:40 +0000

Around The Turkey (Linkfest)

Our Around The 'Sphere linkfest shamelessly renamed to exploit a holiday. Links are from DIFFERING viewpoints and do not necessarily reflect the views ...

By: Bithead

Bithead — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 02:53:14 +0000

Well, here's another poser for TTLB... I think as of tonight, I've figured our where my hit rates are going... Adboocker on Mozilla is blocking the SiteMeter Script. I can't imagine that's not going to screw things up a bit in he ecosystem.

By: Open Source Media (aka Don Surber)

Open Source Media (aka Don Surber) — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:35:39 +0000

Doc, I told NZ Bear privately and publicly: Your site, your rules. No anger. No furious.
I make no apology. I used the Echosystem to publicize Actual Posts. I will find another way to get my message out

By: The Tar Pit

The Tar Pit — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:22:03 +0000

Open Letter to N.Z. Bear: Sabertooth confesses! Here's problem with your current solution: you're throwing some baby out with that bathwater. All of the links below are specifically about your post at TTLB. They took a fair amount of time to locate and organize. Every link I've made here will be ...

By: Decision '08

Decision '08 — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 18:47:32 +0000

N.Z. Bear Announces New Policy: No Open Trackbacks for Ecosystem

You’ve seen them elsewhere…and I make no judgments on the rightness or wrongness of it…but the ‘open trackback’ concept to gain traction in the Ecosystem is now verbotten…
If the above makes no sense, not to worry:...

By: Squiggler

Squiggler — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 18:37:22 +0000

I'm going to have to think this through, but it seems like a good move. Many of us believe we have salient comments about subjects that we link back to. The links, at least on my blog, take you to the original article that generated my interest in the first place. Therefore, I get few trackbacks and probably the original post I'm linking to gets all the traffic, even if I'm only referencing them.

I think the one thing I find the most frustrating is that as a general rule, I get more comments to posts I put up that neither link nor trackback to anyone else. These are usually posts of a very personal nature, while those posts I consider hard hitting or so scintillating it is beyond belief they aren't winning awards (ducking) are ignored. Go figure.

I had my blog nearly 8 months before I joined the Ecosystem. I knew about it, but had a bit of a reverse snobbery thing going on at first and didn't want to be boxed in by someone else's criteria. Then when I did join, my only goal was to stop being an insignificant amoeba. Once I attained that goal, the rest has been gravy.

A thanks to all the bloggers, this past year for me has been one heck of a ride and I appreciate all of you, whether at the top of the heap or just a little guy/gal starting out.

By: PoliBlog: Politics is the Master Science

PoliBlog: Politics is the Master Science — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:56:45 +0000

Change Afoot in the TTLB

N.Z. is again tweaking the TTLB.
James Joyner has a lengthy post that identifies many of the salient issues.
The move has caused some consternation in the Blogosphere and while I don’t want to pick a fight with Don Surber, I don’t think ...

By: Arguing with signposts

Arguing with signposts — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:52:53 +0000

The ecosystem and inline trackbacks

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:57:05 +0000

James,

Bear's new system is flawed still.

1- It excludes all honest to goodness inline trackbacks including ones that link posts on the same topic. You may have noticed, I link to your posts like that five times a week on average.

2- People can still do the trackbacks like Don Surber or I do by manually inputting the URLS.

All Bear has done is create more work for himself and other bloggers plus hurt others who benefit from this. Its Bear's system but he even has said it, it was for fun.

Bill

PS- All these open trackbacks and my Blogosphere status has stayed relatively the same but my traffic is up about 10-15%.