Re: [blogite] How to display pingbacks

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From: Simon Willison (simon@incutio.com)
Date: Sat Sep 07 2002 - 13:16:49 BST

At 13:52 07/09/2002 +0200, mort wrote:
>I think using "pingbacks" as a label for the pingbacks link or list in a
>weblog is not really useful. "Comments" is self-explanatory, but,
>outside the ¿12? people in the world aware of pingback development, why
>sould anyone click in a unknown word like "pingback" or in a link filed
>under "pingbacks"?

On my blog, I'm hoping they'll click it out of curiosity ;)

>So, suggestions to talk-about-pingbacks-without-saying-the-word ;)
>
>1) Further reading on today’s posts
>2) External comments to this post
>3) What other people are writing about this post
>4) (x) other people have considered this post worthy to write about

I like 3 (or variations on it) best. I'm sticking with PingBack for the
moment mainly to help promote the idea, but I agree it's not the most
intuitive way of describing the system.

Cheers,

Simon 

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