I was about to deploy Mark's latest toy on my site, but now I'm not so sure it would be a good idea.  Over the past few days I have had 82 hits from Mark's site, with 36 being to specific blog entries.  The problem is that none of the excerpts which would be Mark's words.  (The actually wouldn't be mine either, try

python linkbackparser.py http://diveintomark.org/ http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2002/Oct/11#x901

to see what I mean)

A random thought that might both solve this problem and provide even more reliable excerpts: if what is obtained from the targetURL has a RSS autodiscovery link, then perhaps the primary RSS feed for the site should be harvested instead.

  9:26:01 PM   Comment 

What trackback and pingback accomplish by requiring active pings, Mark Pilgrim has accomplished without requiring any prior agreement with his Further reading upgrades.  he seems to have done a good job at the hard part - excerpting the quote.

  7:40:52 AM   Comment