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You may have noticed a few oddities around here lately.
- The site has been up and down, available and not, on and off all day;
- A buttload of new “comments” have shown up that are links back to another post on Medium Dreams.
The first item is due to b5media server issues. (Be sure to pronounce issues with two ‘esses’ rather than an ‘ish’ sound: ISSSSS-yous, not ISH-yous.) The new box arrives tomorrow and will hopefully solve the problem. Please bear with us in the meantime.
The second item is due to a new way the blog recognizes when someone is talking about it. When someone links to one of my blog posts over on their blog, my blog shows a pingback (also known as a trackback) in the comments section of the post they linked to. Here is an example of a pingback on the Arquette at Dressed To Kilt 2006 post:
Instead of the commenter’s name, you see the title of the post that is linking back to Arquette at Dressed to Kilt 2006. Instead of a comment, you see an excerpt from the section of that post where the link resides.
What is new about this pingback is that it is not from another blog. It is from another post on Medium Dreams. I often link to previous posts to orient people or provide background for what I am talking about in the current post. These did not used to show up as pingbacks. Now they do.
At first the internal pingbacks made me crazy and seemed to junk up the comments. But it occurs to me it provides a handy way for readers of one post to find related internal posts so I am going to leave them up.
If you are like me and the first place you look when you get here is “Recent Comments” to see who had commented since your last visit, you will have to wade through more pingbacks than you used to, especially when I post a gigantic link-post like I did today. Uh, sorry. Rest assured the most recent real-people comments as of 8:35PM PST, Thursday, December 21, 6:00AM, Friday, December 22, 2006, occurred here and here. So if you have already read those and see other comments made before 8:30PM Thursday, you can ignore them because they are pingbacks.
Let’s give it a few weeks and if the pingbacks make you crazy, let me know. Thank you for your patience with all the changes going on around here.
Tags: blog housekeeping, medium, medium nbc, pingbacks, server problems, trackbacks
I got here through the 8-zillion-pingbacks post for the ProBlogger project, and I noticed you’re talking about the largest pet-peeve I have with WordPress, the self-pinging. I can’t’s stands it.
Luckily, somebody came up with a plugin that stops self-pings. Frankly, the Related Posts does the same things as the pingbacks.
Excellent! I have just emailed a request to my techie to add that plugin. Thanks!
In my next work meeting, I plan to use the phrase… “This blah blah blah isss-ewe is taking way too much time to resolve. Can I let it go?”
JennBo: Hahaha! Let me know how it is received. Heh.
To all: I got sick of internal pingbacks so I deleted them. Hopefully I will get the plugin MacStansbury mentioned, or something like it, after the holidays. In the meantime, I will try to delete the offending internal pingbacks manually so you don’t have a bunch o’ crapola to wade through when all you really want to do is see who said what.
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