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.