Many people that I talked about in my blog posts, and to whom I linked, have left comments on these blog posts. Now, what I would like to check is to what degree people use services like Talk Digger to find out who’s talking about them, what they’re saying and help them make contact to talk more and/or start a new relationship.
So, what I am going to do is write a list of the names of people I read who are not subscribed to my web feed (or that I think are not). And the intention of this blog post is to ping specific people by using links on my blog.
So, if you are one of these people … it would be nice to leave a short comment on this blog post telling me that you found it via the link I’ve made to your blog letting me know what you used to find it (it’s not obligatory that this be Talk Digger ๐ )
So there is the list:
Danah Boyd, Robert Scoble, Darren Rowse, Steve Rubel, Andy Wibbels, Toby, Scott Ginsberg, Paul Graham, Seth Godin, Jeff Cornwall, David H. Beisel, Amber Mac, Anil Dash, Daniel Lemire, Jack Vinson, Lilia Efimova, David Sifry, Matthew Hurst, John Battelle, Kevin Burton, John Tropea, David Weinberger, Michael Arrington
I have no idea what the results of this experiment will be , but I think that they could be interesting and maybe even surprising.
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Steve Rubel
March 12, 2006 — 9:13 am
OK, I will go first. I saw you in my Google Blog Search ego feed. I’m human. ๐
Daniel Lemire
March 13, 2006 — 11:54 am
I also saw you in my Google Blog Search.
Pingback and trackback have been disabled on my blog for a long time. Too much spam.
Jon Husband
March 18, 2006 — 4:55 pm
hmmm .. do you think trackbacks are dead, for most people .. or that something better, easier and simpler is needed ?
Fred
March 19, 2006 — 9:26 am
Hi,
Thanks guys for replying to that blog post. It is the result I was expecting. However it is possible that others came but doesn’t had the time to leave a comment, so it is greatly unscientific; but it is great that two of you find that post using such a feature (linkback)!
Jon: I think so in a way. The problem is that trackback is a geek thing considering that I would not try to explain what it is to my mum. Pingbacks are a good improvement to the idea. However it is not well supported everywhere… when supported. The problem with the linkback feature of search engines is that it is not 100% perfect. The premises are: (1) search engines index the entire Web’s pages and (2) they index all the links from each Web page to each Web page. Unfortunately it is not the case, and it is the reason why it is not working at 100%.
Nothing is perfect in this imperfect World ๐
Take care,
Salutations,
Fred
Matthew Hurst
March 19, 2006 — 5:25 pm
TalkDigger!
Jack Vinson
March 20, 2006 — 12:50 am
Saw your post in a Google blog search.
Janet
August 12, 2006 — 4:18 pm
I love talkdigger! I blogged about it today. https://newspapergrl.wordpress.com/2006/08/12/oooo-look-what-i-found/
I’ll add your blog to my feed. Thanks for stopping by and for doing what you’re doing.
Janet
Fred
August 12, 2006 — 6:41 pm
Hi Janet!
Great, thansk for talking about it, it is really appreciated. I would suggest you to subscribe to the alpha version of the next generation of Talk Digger. Check in the right side bar of the web site to subscribe to it.
Take care,
Salutations,
Fred