TrackBack: Where Blogs Learn Their Places
TrackBack: Where Blogs Learn Their Places. Trackback is the currently very underutlized twin of RSS. It's the push back part of blogging. But it suffers for the same reasons as any type of network-creating tool: too difficult to grasp how it works and what the benefits are. The process in doing it is easy. However, so much of our dialogue is generally one to one. I call you. You call me. I email you. You email me. Trackback allows for the development of peripheral conversations (almost as if we could be party to office gossip about our own thoughts). We still don't understand the value or role of that in communication and knowledge sharing. Our physical history of dialogue is too different. Still, trackback, or some similar concept, will eventually become an important concept in learning online.
Posted by gsiemens at February 17, 2004 2:52 PM