Movable Type launches TrackBack, a framework to allow weblogs to ping each other when one blog references another. The idea is that when, say, a Boing Boing entry links to, say, a Scripting News entry, that Scripting News will get a ping that gives it the URL of the referencing Boing Boing post. So in addition to the Discuss link at the end of the story, Scripting could also have a link to page with all the blog entries that have picked up that link. Meta-tools like Daypop can scour these pages and build meme-charts, showing the interconnectedness of all blogs.
So Ben and Mena have released TrackBack — an event which reminds me of the release of the Blogger API — and now it remains to be seen if other blog-software vendors/authors will integrate TrackBack support on their own tools. I know that TrackBack sounds like an amazing tool for Boing Boing; I hope that Ev thinks well enough of it to incorporate it into Blogger.
(via Aaron)
