trackback
so I was having a conversation with bloody Jones, about how complicated, rather than simple, blogging and the web had become. I said it was because MT and it's ilk are all badly designed shit, filled with obscure terminology, and anti-features.
And this is a shame, because after all the hype about publishing for everyone, the geeks have, yet again, fucked the platform so no-one human can use it.
I'm an unashamed populist. If my mum can't use it, if a complete web novice doesn't get it straight away, i've failed.
And the Trotts, and all these people writing more endlessly self-referentially feedback mechanisms for staring up the arse of your referrers, are failing too.
Why do we keep making the web harder instead of easier?
anyway. I said that 99.999% of people didn't and shouldn't give a fuck about Trackback. It was a throwaway line, but I thought I'd see if I could validate it:
pages on google: 3083324652
google hits for trackback: 500,000
% google hits that are trackback: 99.984
close enough for me.
anyway this week I found out that I'll be speaking at The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference about Upmystreet Conversations which cheered me up.