Recovered from the Wayback Machine.
It started with Ben Hammersley getting an idea:
So here’s what I’d like. Movable Type blogs now automatically create trackbacks when they can. These trackbacks contain RDF, denoting the category the MT blog has that category within. MT produces RDF indexes too (in the flavour of RSS 1.0). So, what I want is a little app that takes the trackback. Follows it back to the originating site, find the RDF snippet, takes the index.rdf, and gives back all the entries within the index.rdf that are on the same subject as the trackback one.
A little chit chat occurs among a few people, all of whom invited themselves into Ben’s conversation via comments, trackbacks, and through cross-posts (here, here, here to list a few).
Today, less two days later, Ben Trott posts a solution. I download it. I run it with my entry Elitist only need apply?. I get the following:
Examining http://www.irelan.net/becoming/archives/000745.html
Category: Technology
Found RSS http://www.irelan.net/becoming/index.rdf
Examining http://esigler.2nw.net/blog/archives/000032.html
Category: Play
Found RSS http://esigler.2nw.net/blog/index.rdf
Examining http://www.seabury.edu/MT/akma/000363.html
Examining http://WWW.onepotmeal.com/blog/archives/001070.html
More Like This From Others:
Young at Heart, Bitter in Mind
Technology
http://www.irelan.net/becoming/archives/000745.shtml
For the people, by the people
Technology
http://www.irelan.net/becoming/archives/000744.shtml
Permahome
Technology
http://www.irelan.net/becoming/archives/000736.shtml
Conferences…
Play
http://esigler.2nw.net/blog/archives/000032.html
Beatings will continue until grades improve…
Play
http://esigler.2nw.net/blog/archives/000031.html
A smattering of assorted thoughts.
Play
http://esigler.2nw.net/blog/archives/000027.html
Doh!
Play
http://esigler.2nw.net/blog/archives/000018.html
Want to know what the future holds for social software? You just saw it in action, boys and girls.