This is my open Trackback post for Tuesday, November 20th. I am cross-posting this to several different sites as well. I only normally do it from Shadowscope however I have been working so many hours this week and need something to post on the others 🙂
The purpose of a linkfest is to help bloggers promote their work. The key technology used by linkfests is the trackback ping. The diagram below shows how it works. Each weekday, a new linkfest article is created on one or more of the participating blogs, and hosts sign up by either pinging the festival or using the form on the article’s main page. The host’s article is known as an open trackback post. The linkfest article keeps track of all the open trackback posts and tries as best it can to figure out each one’s trackback URL. The trackback URL is important because you ping this URL to get your article listed as part of the open trackback post.
To become a guest of the linkfest, you put links to all the hosts in one of your articles, then submit trackback pings to the hosts. This causes a link to your article to appear on the hosts’ blogs. The net result is everybody linking to everybody else.
The Libel Tourist
Hat tip, DW.This documentary short film, produced by the Moving Picture Institute, shows how Saudi billionaire Khalid Bin Mafhouz exploits the British legal system and sues for libel whenever he is the subject of a terrorism accusation. Directed by MPI
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
Mary Cowles Clark (1871-1950) was born in Syracuse, New York, studied with the Art Students League, and spent her summers in Siasconset, in a cottage on Sankaty Road. She illustrated several books, including Frank Baum’s The Life and Adventures of Sa…
Gray Lady: Baghdad Security Improves. I’m Concerned About Pinch
I really am shocked. Over the past month or so, I am seeing more and more news stories in the New York Times that state that things are getting much better and even *gulp* that we are winning in Iraq. The editorials are avoiding discussion of the state…
Why Are Cops Killing Dogs?
ISOLATED OR JUST PLAIN STUPID?
The Consequences of Anti-Immigration Reform?
HATE CRIMES AGAINST HISPANICS?
Our dear a…
Why I Hate John Murtha: Reason #1009
…said Rep. John P. Murtha, chairman of Appropriations defense subcommittee, “We can’t win militarily.”
Democrats Fail to Support the Troops
Too often the word is put out that the Democratic Party supports the troops and anyone who dares to question that is castigated by anyone associated with that group. People can’t really be blamed for the perception that the Democrats do not support th…
Def Sec Robert Gates Calls Reids Bluff: Massive Layoffs For Military
It appears that Gates has no intention of playing Reid’s game:
The military plans to furlough civilian employees and cut all Army and Marine Corps bases to bare-bones operations early next year because of a funding impasse with Congress, accordin…
Why I Hate John Murtha: Reason #1009
…said Rep. John P. Murtha, chairman of Appropriations defense subcommittee, "We can't win
Huckabee’s Dissimulation
Mike Huckabee’s flip flop on abortion federalism…Wounded soldiers are told to return part of their re-enlistment bonus…And the UN has affiliates associated with Al Qaeda.
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