Blocked Blogs
Posted January 22nd, 2004 @ 01:25pm by Erik J. Barzeski
My post on writing well received a TrackBack from another blog somewhere. Unfortunately, I can't see what was said about my post because the site is protected - a "members only" site. Since it (look at the URL) has "/executive/" in it, my guess is that it's a company site and you've gotta be an employee to see it.
Why, then, send a TrackBack ping to me?
I may have more thoughts on this later, but right now it seems rather silly. Why let me know you have a site I can't get to if it's so private? Not so private any more, is it? Given that it is "/executive/" perhaps the exec doesn't know what this whole blogging thing is or what a TrackBack actually does…
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Posted 22 Jan 2004 at 4:04pm #
They are probably using an installation of Movable Type with the send trackbacks automatically option enabled.
I don't remember if it's on or off by default.
Posted 22 Jan 2004 at 4:21pm #
Hi,
it was me (well, actually my Radio Userland app) sending the trackback ping. Unfortunately, it's main page is set up in a restricted area of our companies server (and I haven't gotton around to fixing that)
I'm working on migrating my blog to Movable Type and promise to send trackback pings from a non-restricted area of the server in the future.
Cheers,
HMK
Posted 24 Jan 2004 at 9:13am #
You know the worse thing of all... when MT pings your own "blog".
Posted 24 Jan 2004 at 3:52pm #
I've set it up to ping my own blog. I call them Internal TrackBacks.