The Blog Effect
It’s pretty crazy how much all this blog action has changed The Tribe. I’ve always spent some time working on the website during most normal work days…and spent the rest of the time just browsing the rest of the web. (Kidding…kidding…seriously…)
But really, the last week or so…I pretty much have given up on the rest of the internet, and just study the blogs. The links from the blogs, the comments on the blogs and their associated links, the google indexes for various blog pages, the log files from the blogs…everything….it’s madness I tell you.
The really killer thing about it, is that now we sit two weeks into the blog experiment here at The Tribe, and already there is a quite impressive amount of associative information. You can read just links from the blogs, never using a web search engine, and at a browsing depth of 1 (meaning you read only the blogs themselves, or links from them, not links from links from the blogs…or so on) it still takes an incredible amount of time.
That is one of the reasons I don’t worry about The Tribe proper having any problems transitioning to the blogs and dealing with it while maintaining it’s cohesiveness. We can all kinda pingback and trackback each others more or less private blogs, and still have a cohesive, chronologically correct discussion of a topic. Only each individual author basically gets to decide the entire look and feel of their post.
Not only that, the blogs connect The Tribe into the web in a way the message board, since it was non-indexed for obvious reasons, never would have. (PS: If anyone wants to know how to keep their blog from showing up in google, I can show you.)
So, yeah I’m buzzed and spend way too much time on the internet, on this website, or while thinking about this website or the internet in general…or everything in general…or something….
April 27th, 2005 at 7:22 pm
so earlier i tried to trackback to this post by just pasting the link into the trackback uri thing on the post page, but it has never showed up either here or in my post on the blogs in 21st century soap-boxing. what all do i have to do to make that work?
April 27th, 2005 at 11:05 pm
When you are viewing the comments, right up there in a white box there is a link in there that says “yadayada, or trackback from your own site…” did you copy that link? I don’t know for sure, but I think that’s what you need. I tried to send a pingback to your site yesterday though and it didn’t seem to work. So there might still be glitches in the matrix that need caressing.