Remember my blog post last week about the debate with Mike about blog software? Well, Ciscley pointed out that it seems to be men that have the biggest issue with MT (once they convert, they love it – but it’s getting them to move to MT that is the challenge.) Not only did she post it in my comments, she took it a step further and wrote a longer post about the whole thing on her site. Now Jonathon has written a very interesting post pointing out that maybe MT is the Blogging software that can ultimately make both men & women happy.
Ironically, none of these MT users have TrackBack enabled, so they didn’t ping my post from last week to notify me of what they wrote, and I can’t ping them with this post in return. Pssst… enable TrackBack! Pinging is good fun!
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i haven’t researched the forums but i wonder if it works in pMachine.
I have to upgrade first. Which, in fact, I think I’ll do now. 🙂
everyone should ping. pinging rocks.
Apologies for the lack of TrackBack/PingBack, Christine. I’m still using MT 2.11 (because my hideously expensive Australian web hosting service wants to charge an arm and a leg for MySQL). I’m about to move my blog to Cornerhost (where I’ve already installed MT 2.51). When it’s up and running, I’ll enable TrackBack (and maybe PingBack too, if someone can explain the difference between them).
Oh, come on, the world existed before TrackBack. It’s called referral logs. It’s called email – send a courtesy one when you post in response to someone else. It’s called comments – go tell them that you posted a reply on your blog.
It’s cool, but it ain’t that cool.
Ditto what Mike said.
I feel so left out and unloved … I .. I CAN’T TrackBack … WHAAAaaaa. My doctor says it’s all psycosematic, but I think it’s just in my head.
*grunt* tj can’t spel “psychosomatic”
Speaking of the original reason for this post…
I am curious as to what the ratio of men to women users is for all of the weblogging tools (or non-tools for those manual bloggers). I think that would be an interesting poll.
For instance, I wouldn’t be surprised to see even gender representation in MT, but would expect to see skewed results in some of the open source blogging tools, because women don’t have a strong presence in open source (more’s the pity).
And Christine, apologies for double trackback ping. I’m finding that my installation of MT 2.51 is double pinging if I do trackback pings and the blo.gs and weblogs.com pings at the same time.
Hey, I pinged! But I didn’t have anything really interesting to say, heh. That said, I’m not altogether convinced of the merits of TrackBack. I’m considering disabling it on my site.
Mike & Brian: My referral logs don’t show me hits to archive pages on my blog. Since my blog is a secondary domain on my main account, I don’t trust the referral logs. I *never* use my referral logs, and I haven’t in the past 5 years.
Plus, as I said before, TrackBack allows OTHERS to follow along with the thread of discussion across blogs – it doesn’t just allow ME to find the post.
Manda: Leave TrackBack on your site. Please. Pretty please. 🙂
I use PMachine, and I’m a guy.
Yeah.
I also use GM on some other sites, but PM is my main blog SW, and I like it that way. 😉
Edge – yeah, it’s been the main blog SW for all of what, 24 hours? 48? 😉
I’d ping you Christine, but I’m still running MT 2.0. I guess I need to ask my blog host really nicely about an upgrade.:)
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