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April 13, 2004

Technorati BlogThreads

Technorati has made it easy to see which other blogs are commenting on one of your blog entries. Click on "BlogThread" at the end of one of my entries to see how it works. (For purposes of example, pick one that has some TrackBacks.) Dave Sifry explains how to do it here. [Later that same day: I'm adopting Esther Dyson's suggestion of "Threadorati" instead of BlogThreads.]

This is a lot like TrackBacks, which were introduced by MovableType, except the aggregation of referring sites is done by Technorati as part of its continuous polling of the blogosphere. With TrackBacks, your blogging software automatically pings aggregation sites whenever you post anything. Technorati's feature — which I'm calling "BlogThreads" in honor of the comatose ThreadsML, an attempt to make discussion threads interchangeable — works with any blogging software. (This blog uses MT, by the way. I'm very happy with it.)

Technorati continues to be very, very cool.

Posted by D. Weinberger at April 13, 2004 09:15 AM

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