Citebite [the blog]: Open to suggestion

Citebite [the blog]: Open to suggestion

I just realized that there is a potential for trackbacks getting lost in the CiteBite medium. Blog platforms that support trackbacks usually support this automagically via some sort of “Attempt to notify weblogs that this post links to” option. Great. Good on them. But if I am referencing a series of citebites, those links point there rather than to the original post. There are two workarounds for this.

1. Include a link to the full post(s) the citebites will reference. This is probably the easiest solution right now.
2. Dig up the trackback URL and enter it manually. This is too unwieldy to be of any use.
3. The third option is to have CiteBite pass through those trackbacks. So, if I link to a citebite that references a line from a blog that accepts trackbacks, CiteBite could ping that trackback link so that the referenced site is notified.

Of course, I haven’t considered all of the logistics of this, but I think it’s an important mechanism that needs to be preserved.

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Sometimes Simplicity is the Height of Genius

I have really been enjoying a particular blog lately. It’s called indexed and it’s the simplest blog I have seen in quite a while. With the use of a simple two-dimensional Cartesian graph or Venn diagram, Jessica Hagy is able to capture the sense of something that would take other bloggers paragraphs upon paragraphs of pedantic babble. It’s quickly becoming one of my favorites because it’s always compelling to some degree and each post only takes a moment to ingest so it doesn’t add a lot to my RSS time-sink.

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