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April 29, 2005
Tom Coates on Trackback Is Dead
Posted by Stowe Boyd
I don't agree with Tom Coates that Trackback is dead. His argument is that trackbacks have been driven to extinction by the spammers, but blacklist and moderation tools solve that problem, really. And the near-term possibility of an instant messaging-style digital identity system (a la Six Apart's TypeKey) that would support a blogosphere-wide gated community of verified users should fill us with hope, not dread.
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1. Usher Lieberman on April 29, 2005 01:28 PM writes...
Stowe - I don't think trackbacks are dead at all (though I chose to comment not trackback.) Personally, I think some company is going to get the smart idea of offering a trackback to every page of significance on their Web site for the explicit purpose of opening a dialogue with customers that they cannot control. My most recent blog entry describes more of what I mean...someone is going to 'get real' as you say.
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