This is the blog of Adam Kalsey. Unusual depth and complexity. Rich, full body with a hint of nutty earthiness.
Excerpt: Send TrackBack pings to any site even if your blogging client doesn’t support TrackBack. Read the whole article…
Excerpt: Simpletracks Send TrackBack pings to any site even if your blogging client doesn't support TrackBack....
I've been thinking about doing this, but as a bookmarklet. I haven't gotten around to it, but you could make a great useful bookmarklet that would be fired when you were looking at your site. Firing it, it could grab the URL you were on (as the entry URL), the title of the page (as the blog name), and the text-selection as the excerpt (if you highlighted it with your mouse). Then you'd just need to fill in the title for your post and paste in the MT trackback URL.
Excerpt: http://kalsey.com/2003/06/simpletracks/...
Excerpt: Ever since Ben and Meena came up with the Trackback feature in MovableType, I\'ve been waiting impatiently for Blogger to add it.
Excerpt: For those of you with blogging tools that can't do TrackBacks, there are two new tools available for you: Simpletracks Stand Alone Trackback Pinger...
Adam, would it be possible to integrate Simpletracks with the comment form? For example, I was thinking about how Matt Haughey aggregates his comments on other sites using a standalong TrackBack script, similar to Simpletracks. For Matt Haughey and others who want to aggregate their comments, It would be convenient if comment forms also contained a field called "TrackBack URL." Then the comment author could leave a comment and send a TrackBack ping all in one step.
That's funny, Brad Choate and I were discussing the same thing. There's a couple of problems as I see it. First, a URL is required. What if the commenter doesn't have a blog? Second, the TrackBack spec limits the size of the excerpt field to 255 characters. Third, MT doesn't rebuild archive pages when an entry gets a TrackBack. Finally, I'm not convinced of the value. If you want to have your trackbacks and comments merged into one, Simplecomments does the trick.
Excerpt: Simpletracks, another creative work from Kalsey. It offers you to manually ping MT-powered blogs with filling up the form here. By giving Trackback URL, your blog name, entry title/URL, you got the Trackback feature of Movable Type. The trackback clien...
Uber cool. Now if only you would extend this to do remote trackback hosting as well ... ;-)
Excerpt: Adam (who has come up with some of the best MT mods & tools) has created a new weblog tool for bloggers who don't have access to using the popular trackback feature found in many blog apps.
Excerpt: Simpletracks正是为这一问题而生的一项工具，通过Simpletracks，人们可以将自己的某篇...
Excerpt: Just seen over at Kevin's...Simpletracks, a universal TrackBack client... Allows you to manually ping (send a trackback) to any weblog or service that accepts trackbacks. Simply tell it the TrackBack URL you want to ping and fill in your URL, the entry...
Excerpt: I share my thoughts on what actually makes me read a weblog... When you link to other people's blog entries, send them a TrackBack if they can receive one. If your blogging tool does not support sending trackbacks, Simpletracks from Adam Kalsey will do the job nicely.
Da habe ich schon lange drauf gewartet - genau so etwas fehlte meinem Greymatter Blog noch :) [Rough translation: I've waited for this for a long time. It's something that's missing from Greymatter. --Adam]
Excellent. It works. Even though my blog is HTML only and I use no blogging software, I was able to easily send a trackback.
Adam, thanks for your great translation. I must have been quite a bit disarranged that I missed the correct language. That happens if you are switching between two languages all the day ;-)
Excerpt: What if your blogging tool doesn’t send TrackBack pings? How would you participate in these projects and ... That's an excerpt of what Adam Kalsey posted in his weblog named Measure Twice.
Funny, I implemented the same basic concept on June 12th, but in Icelandic, intended only for the Icelandic blogging scene. I called mine PingBuddy (http://www.anomy.net/pingbuddy/ ). When I saw your Simpletracks tool today, I decided to make an English version of PingBuddy, just for fun. (http://www.anomy.net/pingbuddy/en/ :-) My implementation has one feature that SimpleTracks doesn't have: If you add a Trackback ping URL as a query string to the PingBuddy URL, the that field becomes pre-filled in for you. Example: http://www.anomy.net/pingbuddy/en/?http%3A%2F%2Fkalsey.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmt%2Fmt-tb.cgi%2F630 I and others have used this feature to offer our readers a quick Manual-Trackback-With-PingBuddy link on each of your weblog entries. I think this just goes to show how great simple low-tech APIs like the Trackback Ping API are. Take care.
Excerpt: 'Manual Trackback' is a PHP script that allows an author of a weblog that does not support trackback to manually trackback to my weblog. All this weblog author needs to supply is the title of his or her weblog, the title or date of his or her weblog en...
gTrackback is a PHP port of Movable Type's Standalone Trackback. The site is in German but the ReadMe file is in English. I've tested it on my own site and found it useful. Sorry for this "me, too!" post...
does this tool support sending multiple tracks at a time? seperating the trackback urls by commer one click to send the same trackback to many people
That doesn't work and probably won't be added. It would make it too easy to use the tool to send ping spam.
Excerpt: If your site does not have trackback, you can still take advantage of the trackback function on other sites with the Kalsey Consulting Group’s free and easy-to-use Simpletracks tool. All you need is the trackback URL of the post you’re referencing and ...
Just tried it for the first time, to send a trackback to MetaFilter... kept getting an unspecified error, so I figured I was making a mistake. Kept trying to fix my mistake. Imagine my surprise when I saw that all of my attempts appeared on MeFi after all...!
I'd guess that the MeFi TrackBack server was returning an error but still accepting the ping.
Excerpt: 真要感谢SimpleTrack.如果能集成到Moveable Type里面就好了 Many thanks to SimpleTrack for resolving the trackback problem at 51.net. Looking forward the feature t...
maybe i'm not understanding, but is there also a way to allow your non-MT/non-TB site to support trackbacks as well?
This is an excellent tool, thanks Adam.
Excerpt: Trackbacks seem to be unnecessarily confusing. A trackback is a reference on one website (usually a blog) to another website (ditto). MovableType supports trackbacks fairly intuitively, but a lot of blogging tools don?t.
Excerpt: With my recent switch to the pyBlosxom comment architecture, I gained the ability to receive trackback pings. However, I didn’t have the ability to send them. This is where Simpletracks comes in.
I just installed Haloscan trackback capability on my Blogspot blog and tested it with your pinger. Works like a charm! Thanks.
Excerpt: ... Simpletracks. I just tested it and it works like a charm, at least with Haloscan ...
Having some problems with Trackback using Haloscan installed at Blogspot. So, I'm testing. It looks like I can trackback to othersites. However, for some reason, my site is not listing MY trackback URL. I used the Haloscan autoinstall. Ugh. It's perplexing. Is Simpletrack an option?
Excerpt: Testing. Testing. Is Simpletracks an option instead of Haloscan? This is maddening.
Excerpt: 1,2,3. Test Test. Servus! Wohoo? Wohooo!
I'm having trouble making this work; should it work with Livejournal? Thanks, iocaste
For some reason, apostrophe's always show up as the html code with the & sign on the blog that I trackback on. Is there a way to fix this?
Excerpt: Hm, da meine von gtrackback erzeugten Trackbacks etwas eigenwillig aussehen (Wörter im Excerpt nicht durch Freizeichen, sondern durch + getrennt)...
Does this work with blogger too and livejournal?
The tool can send Trackpack pings to any server that can accept trackbacks. It doesn't matter what software your blog is made with. You could be using LiveJournal, Blogger, or hand coded HTML.
Excerpt: Una de las cosas que menos me gustan de mi iniciada experiencia en Blogger es la imposibilidad de gestionar trackbacks. He conseguido hacer que pueda recibir trackbacks, gracias a Haloscan, pero hoy he descubierto que también es posible lanzar trackba...
What does this error mean - 'An error occured connecting to the server: Invalid protocol " http"\n' ?!
Excerpt: Explication du concept de trackback et présentation de l'outil d'Adam Kalsey permettant de faire un trackback, vu que les skynetblogs ne le permettent pas.
Why do I receive an error message saying that I am pinging too quickly? I thought I was going slow. lol. Thank you.
This was so helpful. Thanks (because before I found your site, my head was swimming)
I did an automatic installation of Haloscan comments and trackback to my Blogspot blog this morning: http://pe17502.lrdns.com/members/autoinstall/ Installation was smooth with no glitches. Then I starting using Simpletracks. Again, perfection! Thank you for Simpletracks. It works great.
Cool tool, thanks for sharing. Question: does it allow me to ping more than one site for the same post on my blog? I have a post that makes referrences to multiple other websites and so far I've only been able to get the tool to ping the first site I tried, none of the others seem to ping correctly.
I'm having a problem tonight. I am unable to ping a site. I keep getting this error: An error occured connecting to the server: Invalid protocol " http"\n Could you tell me what the problem might be? I have tried it 5 times, making sure I only copy and paste my information, and each time, I get this message.
I keep getting "An unrecognized error occured." can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong. (In simple langauge because I am a bear of very little brain and long words confuse me!) I filled out the form with their URL, my blog name, post title, URL of post and an excerpt of my post...
I keep0 trying to use this, but keep getting "An Unrecognized Error Occured" can you help me!?
"An unrecognized error occured." It would be nice if you could give a little more info than that, like at least the error code, and anything else sent back
also getting "unrecognized error." thanks.
“unrecognized error.” Me, too. Tried to send a Ping several times during the last months - doesn't work. Thanks.
An unrecognized error occured to me, too. (Several times, different blogs.)
Tried to do two trackbacks yesterday. One worked. Hit back button, changed the trackback URL to do the second, got the "five minute" error. Reloaded and tried again, and got the "too quickly" error. Retried several times yesterday, and again today, starting from scratch. Still getting the "too quickly" error.
i get the same error too...
I'm having a problem, at times, sending trackbacks. I haven't sent a trackback since last Thursday. Yet, when I tried to send a trackback this afternoon to a site from Wizbang or this one, it tells me I'm pinging too fast. Yet, it was the very first time in almost 3 days. What is going on, when this happens. It isn't the first time it has happened.
“unrecognized error.” Me, too. Tried to send a Ping several times during the last months - doesn’t work.
dude! first off, (overdue) THANKS for both your PingOMatic and your Trackbacks tools. legend efforts and public-spiritednesses, both. but i just noticed, due to a copypaste bollox-up, a tiny oddity in your trackback code which you might like to think about. Leading Whitespace in (at least) the "Trackback URL" field is interpreted as a newline ("\n") and returns an error. you might like to put a s/^[ \t]*// in there. (offered in the spirit of helping a community-minded coder improve code communityly, not whinging)
I see: "An unrecognized error occured." What is this?
capatcha check isn't visible ~ Diane Clancy
I still am having problems with this ... if I use my website and the entry url it goes through. When I use the post I am trying a trackback about, it won't go through. that is when it wants the captcha check. Also I got an unrecognized error one time ... just confused! ~ Diane Clancy
The link 'Church language - world's worst practice' takes me to the Melbourne Anglican news and media site. Is a direct link still available please? James
hey Adam, Great work all over, I have been working for weeks on a Trackback System on our Blog http://www.bhopu.com and in the meanwhile during the initial runs of the trackback at my side your Simpletracks has been great. It worked without me need to scratching my head until I provided my weblogz trackback ping url once (after working correctly one time). Maybe your mechanism doesn't send pings with standard parameter case, i.e. - new written blog's Title as "title", permalink as "url", Referenced Blog Entry Title as "blog_name", ID of Referenced Blog as "id", and Content of new written Entry as excerpt. Pardon me as I am little novice to this development field but can you please recheck your field's names' used in the SendPing Method of yours.
Netin: Since Simpletracks has been used thousands of times per day with dozens of blogging systems for 5 years, it's unlikely that the problem with your fields is on my end. Try reading the [Trackback spec](http://www.sixapart.com/pronet/docs/trackback_spec) and you'll see that "id" isn't a valid field. So if you're expecting a trackback tool to send it, you're not going to find much success.
Great tool, dude! My server doesn't support HTTP connections, so I've lived without trackbacks and pings till found your script. Thank you, man!
Wow! Its awesome. I use blogger which doesn't have a pingback support. After trying various method, I found out simpletracks. Thanks a lot for creating it. \m/
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plscrivens
June 14, 2003 1:58 PM
Kalsey...man you are a becoming more and more of a genius everyday. Honestly, though this tool helps kill one of the arguments people have about trackback and its inability to work on non-trackback servers. Job well done.