Assignment 1-3

What trackback is…

When I edit my blog in wordpress.com, I find the box of trackback just below the words that i write. Though somehow I tried to copy and paste the box just as I see it, it was impossible for some reason. But generally any blogger in the WordPress.com will see like this following.

Send trackbacks to:
(Separate multiple URLs with spaces)

Trackbacks are a way to notify legacy blog systems that you’ve linked to them. If you link other WordPress blogs they’ll be notified automatically using pingbacks, no other action necessary.

Honestly I use the blog-editting in Japanese version because of my poor linguistical ability, but I would understand the explanation likewise the above English version. If you fill out the URL in the box trackbacks, it can be noticed to anyone who you linked in your blog. Clicking the explanation, you will see more detail information as following;

There are three significant differences between pingbacks and trackbacks, though.

1. Pingbacks and trackbacks use drastically different communication technologies (XML-RPC and HTTP POST, respectively).
2. Pingbacks support auto-discovery where the software automatically finds out the links in a post, and automatically tries to pingback those URLs, while trackbacks must be done manually by entering the trackback URL that the trackback should be sent to.
3. Pingbacks do not send any content.

 

Comparing the differences between the trackback and the pingbacks, it will be more easily to understand the concept of the trackback. This system should be necessarily functioned in order to protect writers’ copyright in the blogger world.