Olin wrote regarding 'Re: [OT] what about "wiki"' on Wed, Jan 25 at 10:26:
> Alex Harford wrote:
> > In the blogging world, that is called a 'trackback', and can be done
> > automatically.  Unfortunately this requires both websites to
> > cooperate.
> 
> That sounds like a recipe for disaster.  How could some automatic process
> possibly know which pages should be linked to and put an intelligent comment
> by the link?

It's not fully automatic, typically.  It's more like citing a
reference (manually), and the page which is cited automatically
generates a reciprocal link to the site which referred to it.  Except,
instead of just a citation, it can just be a manually entered related
blog entry.  Or at least, that's how I understand it - I don't use any
of the "social networking" stuff on my blog.  For that matter, I
generally don't even like referring to the blog as a blog - that term
just irritates curmudgeonly ol' me.  It's a single-user bulletin
board, or a notepad - but not a blog. :)

--Danny
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