[Sigia-l] MoveableType, Trackback and "Category to Category Communication"

[Andrew Otwell]

I'm sure the MT users here already know about the recent upgrade to the
program has added a couple of interesting features.

One of those is "Trackback", which tracks links *to* specific posts/pages
*from* outside sources. The MT developers describe this in two ways in the
docs, both are of interest to IA.

(This is paraphrased from
http://www.movabletype.org/docs/mtmanual_trackback.html)

"Entry-to-entry communication": for each post you write, you can allow
others to receive ping notices when it's updated. Or, you can track specific
posts on other sites for updates, and recieve notices when they are.

"Category-to-category communication": you can set up your *categories* to
allow ping notices, which means that whenever you post an item in, say, your
"Information Architecture" category, you can automatically announce this to
other people/blogs. Also, you can expose any of your categories to other
blogs so that a post somewhere else is announced to one of your categories.

(Password-protection is available for this system as well)

That means that if I use the category name "Information Architecture" and
you use "IA - Resources and Stuff", that our posts, comments, and categories
can still create permanent links to each other automagically, even if our
category names change.

Some additional examples of use scenarios are at
http://www.movabletype.org/trackback/archives/000300.html#000300

andrew