ELI Social Computing

From my quick research on this matter, easy integration of trackbacks is what separates WordPress from Blogger (although, not to confuse matters too much, but you do have other choices).  Source #1 informs us that you can set up something called Haloscan to manage trackbacking on blogger, this is one possibility. Source #2 gives instructions for setting up “backlines” in Blogger, which looks like trackbacking.

Is anyone confused about what trackbacking is? When it is working seamlessly, all one needs to do is provide a link back to the url of a particular post, and the referring blog post will show up in the comments of the blog being referred to. Case in point, if you look at Christy’s blog post’s comments, you will see two different comments. They are in fact not comments, but trackbacks. The first will take you back to the first reference I made to what she wrote, the second will refer to this post here.  Can you think of how you could use this feature of blogging effectively?