Joho the Blog
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November 17, 2006
Technorati has introduced a promising new feature. Click on the "Blog reactions" link at the bottom of a post and you'll be taken to a list of other blogs that have linked to that post. This is functionally like trackbacks but instead of including only blogs that actively notify other blogs when they link, it takes advantage of the fact that Technorati is indexing so much of the blogosphere. If it sees a link to one of your posts, it adds it to the list of blog reactions. I am on Technorati's advisory board (disclosure) and will be advising them to let blog owners set the color of the link and to get rid of the Technorati logo. [Tags: blogs technorati trackbacks] Later that day: The blog reactions are making my page load too slowly, at least intermittently. Or maybe I just hit a rough patch on the Information Highway. In any case, I'm removing the links until I understand better where the problem is. Posted
by D. Weinberger at November 17, 2006 09:56 AM
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Good idea. About time too.
Posted by: Crosbie Fitch | November 17, 2006 10:30 AM
When I first saw mention of this, I thought it sounded a lot like the Backlinks bookmarklet that Seb Paquet whipped up using Bloglines (and which I still use sometimes for this same purpose). But it also sounds like something that would scale up poorly in terms of server load, if lots of folks started using it.
For a while, I was using the bookmarklet script in my blog template, adding it after comments and trackbacks, but it would have been more useful if it could have retrieved the number of backlinks, and I wonder if that's a compromise worth pursuing.
cgb
Posted by: Collin Brooke | November 17, 2006 10:30 PM