It’s weekend, so here comes a little geeky interlude:
Steve Rubel, one of the real blog authorities comes up with the insight that trackbacks are dying. He argues that several websites like cnet or yahoo dropped it and that the basic function got replaced by widgets.
Trackbacks are these little comments under blog postings, which show a direct link to another related posting on another blog. I personally use it a lot because it is in my view the most simple and easiest way to show readers what else might be relevant to them if they enjoyed this posting. That is the beauty of it. Simple & Stupid.
Widgets might be much nicer looking and be a way fancier, but are distracting. I will try my very best to keep this blog free of them. It’s just distracting and neither me nor all the wonderful readers of this blog should be forced to sign up to any social bookmarking or what so ever site. I would say only a maximum of maybe 1-5% of the web users get what social bookmarking is or care about the difference between del.icio.us or digg. The best example for this is still, that if you check the digg top storys they are most of the time nerd related stories.
Steve shows some statistics that the number of blogs mentioning blog is not growing any more. Even so if you take a closer look at it the technorati statistic is way different. I would be happy if this whole blogging thing would just become a normal thing. Who does really care if it’s a blog or a stupid html file (think drudge!), as long as it’s content is relevant.
Btw, Steve shows this image: (90 days)
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If you check out the bigger picture (180 days) it looks like this:
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Stumble it!