Pingback: Tracking distributed "conversations"

Pingback is a method to keep the links that are referencing our posts.

It's a form of being aware about the links from the outside that are referencing the articles in our blogs.

Pingback is a technology that allow web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents.

Let's go with an example:
Web author of Site A writes an interesting article on his Blog. Site B's Web author then reads this article and comments about it, linking back to Site A's original post.
Using pingback, Site B's software can automatically notify Site A web author that his post has been linked to, and Site A's web author software can then include this information on his site and be aware about comments on the blogosphere.

For example: I put here a link to a post in my Personal Blog Twitter and the rising of nanoblogs this post talk about the funny site of Twitter and the nanoblogs, I recommend this article ;)

So Why Pingback is important?. This tool or mechanism is important 'cause It allows us keep a conversation in a distributed environment and be aware what are other people are saying about our articles.

It's an easy form of navigate through a distributed conversation and keeping the information organized and related! It's amazing! What do you think?.

Please let your comments and make a test and link some article from my Blog.