>Where I’m coming from is that that I want to own my own contributions rather than just blending in with the hordes posting their Amazon reviews or BBC Have Your Say bollocks.<

I can completely understand that – it’s why I have my own blog, after all, but, there’s nothing to stop people from posting a comment, then recycling that comment into a blog post on their own site, but I feel that trackbacks provide less value to the wider (non-blogging) community, who’re probably better served by keeping the conversation in one place, than comments do. Trackbacks/fresh posts on a subject at other blogs only fragment the discussion, forcing people to hop across multiple sites to follow it and respond to different bits. I seem to recall one of the cardinal rules of Usenet being something like “Thou shalt not start a new thread every time you post”, which is sort of what the whole trackback business feels like.

If there were no non-trackback comments on any blog, if the only way to respond to anything was on your own blog, it’d probably be more workable, but I think the number of voices in any discussion would be also be correspondingly smaller.

But now I must head for home. Hope you’re all well at your place, too.

If Technorati were providing the Live Web that they claim to be, then wouldn’t that solve the immediacy problem?

The blog that started the topic would get its ping, and could then display my post underneath it as a comment almost right away.

Plus, I get to keep my comment on a site of my own.

Where I’m coming from is that that I want to own my own contributions rather than just blending in with the hordes posting their Amazon reviews or BBC Have Your Say bollocks.

So is it just the way trackbacks are implemented?

But your comment came up as a link on my blog fairly quickly.

Anyway.

Hope you’re keeping well!

Peter