I've been neglecting this blog for a few weeks; work and real life have kept me busy! However I have managed to upgrade to Movable Type 3.3 beta. This version has tag support built-in, which is nice because it frees up the "keywords" field I had been borrowing for other purposes. Not so critical here, but on my photoblog that will come in very handy.
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One of the things I'm trying on this site is the use of TrackBack as the primary means for readers to respond to a post. For most posts, I am leaving comments disabled, on the theory that anyone who has a significant comment to make can do so on their own blog, and send me a TrackBack. This has a few drawbacks -- namely that some readers won't have their own blog, and those that do may not use TrackBack.
My photo blog, which has been around for a few years, regularly gets hit with big doses of TrackBack spam. The same is starting to happen here on jkeyes.com. I am pleased that Movable Type has automatically blocked every last junk TrakBack so far (on both sites), and has let the legitimate ones (small in quantity though they may be) through. However, TrackBack spam is one of the areas that needs to be addressed by the TrackBack working group and standardization process.
Comments on this post? Send me a TrackBack!
Scoble says the question should not be how to get more traffic. It's "write a better blog" and traffic will follow. Pretty relevant for this modest little blog -- brand new and no traffic at all yet, so it's all upside. Let's see whether I can write a better blog.
