Last September I wrote about Blog Lensing, but one of the immediate drawbacks to the noting versus blogging is that real blogging allows the source to acknowledge the note. I looked into this, realizing blogs do pingbacks and trackbacks, and found that pingbacks were simple enough to implement without much of hassle code.
Pinging Back
The basic method:
- Note an item
- Notify the ping serivce
- Ping service performs pingback
- Blog checks pingback source
- Blog accepts/rejects ping
So for my purposes, I have already coded 3 on a certain domain, and I’ve implemented 2 as a Greasemonkey script in Firefox. Here’s some shots of the results.
Takes the most recent item of note feed
Results of a manual ping
The comment shows in the dashboard
And the output on the content side
This simple test showed that SpamKarma was blocking the ping, but after allowing the google domain, all was good.
Manual Ping
For anyone that wishes to ping something, the service is rather simple to use, and it’s anonymous. The necessary information required is one’s own shared items/reader id (mine is 16097182386737877647). With a proper id, one simply appends to the url gr.otakuken.com/shared/ (eg. gr.otakuken.com/shared/16097182386737877647 ).
I don’t plan on developing the service further, as it is simple in nature, but it could prove useful in the future. I won’t delve into technicals, but it uses a little php and XSL, any further info can be discussed on irc or via email ^_^
I can’t off the top of my head conceive of the larger implications of this service, though, tangentially, would a forum devoted to meta help?
No, it’s quite basic, just does what Author mentioned GR does not do, which is notify blog authors of notes. The only thing it could be used as is a sort of aggregator of shared notes… if it was used more, since everything runs off those IDs it could simply store the info for output elsewhere.
Forum to meta, dunno, forums in general are pretty messy, and I think it has to do with threads and pages. Blogs offer a centralized focus per post, then discussion can proceed.
If anything Noting is more like twitter, so aggregating gr notes would create a timeline in a similar fashion.