intertwingly

What about RubBlog? Perhaps its worthy of your evaluation also?

http://pragprog.com/pragdave/Tech/Blog/SourceCode.rdoc,v

or Ted Neward's GeekBlog (at SourceForge)?

BlogScene will ramp back into production soon too!

Pingback from TIG's Corner

Well, I just tried to write a big long post defending the idea of TrackBack pings that don't link to you, since I don't think the semantics of TrackBack really require that the pinger link to the pingee, but unfortunately I couldn't come up with an example that the pingee would like, so I think I'll concede that battle before it even starts. It limits the things that we can do with TrackBack, but it's probably asking too much to have people let us insert a link in their page going to a page that doesn't link to them.

Phil: Actually I have one scenario where I pinged a site that I had not linked to. Last month I found a new posting that one of my previous entries, made months earlier, was in essence an anwser to. Instead of repating myself or posting a comment with URL, I pinged them.

This post on BloggerDev covers it in more detail.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bloggerDev/message/1327

This issue of TrackBack spamming is a difficult and unfortunate one. As you have correctly pointed out, it limits us. Rather then completely procluding situations like the one above, perhaps pings where a link is not present should be held for approval. This way "pingees" would have the option of accepting a ping that does not specifically link to them while containing spam. It reduces the transparentcy of TrackBack to a degree, but it also limits the effectiveness of TrackBack spamming.

Not a perfect solution, but something to consider.

Thankfully Sam Ruby is filtering spam out of his comments.  I subscribe to his comments feed but was getting ready to unsubscribe after having to scroll past several spam messages while skimming my news aggregator. I get enough spam in my...

That's it, Timothy, I'm putting you in the seed-planter category with Sam, where I need to look closely at everything for unobvious killer ideas.

I saw that exchange, but didn't really notice it as anything beyond explaining how TB works. But, you know how Morbus does Amphetadesk support by searching Daypop for people ranting on their blog about how it won't work for them? If he had a FAQ blog and a little script to extract TrackBack URLs and ping them from the right entry, it would automate a lot of it away.

Depending on where most people end up looking for linkback verification, you could probably get around Sam's style of spam-proofing by adding a "Where was this frequently asked?" list of the pings you've sent, and rebuild the page before you send the ping so it'll be accepted.

Joi Ito says had been looking at TrackBack more as a two-way thing until he recently was pinged by another weblogger that did not mention or link to him -- a one-way TrackBack ping. I recount a legitimate use of one-way TrackBack pinging and offer... [more]

Trackback from tima thinking outloud.

Thankfully Sam Ruby is filtering spam out of his comments.  I subscribe to his comments feed but was getting ready to unsubscribe after having to scroll past several spam messages while skimming my news aggregator. I get enough spam in my...

OK, now that I have verified that spamAssasin is working correctly on my mail to blog interface, I'm adding one line: if title.find('****SPAM****')==0: return Also, as Phil has already pointed out, I'm also getting getting TrackBack spam. My...