Re: Leveraging weblogging, Trackback, XML/RPC

>There's a system built on top of XML/RPC (or SOAP, can't remember which,
>and not an expert in these things) called "Trackback", which is used at
>the moment for notifying a web server that someone has linked /
>commented on a blog entry. Could this be leveraged to provide
>notifications for an IM2000 style system?
><http://www.movabletype.org/trackback/beginners/>

Is it illustrative that many of that page's links to posts don't work
(starting at <http://www.movabletype.org/trackback/beginners/#729>)?

To me, a broken link is a broken link, which probably relates strongly
to why I prefer push delivery to pull for emails.

But maybe the blog community takes broken links fully in stride,
treating them as "oh well, guess so-and-so didn't think what he had to
say was important enough to leave posted for this long", if even
considered to that extent?

-- 
James Craig Burley
Software Craftsperson
<http://www.jcb-sc.com>