Kudos, to Threadwatch and CNET

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Ok I’m an internet marketer, and I’ve recently left my day job to go out on my own (see Nothing Stays Constant but Change). As my buddy Thuringwethil pointed out my blogging frequency has also increased as a direct result of that change. I also spend a lot more time reading other forums and blogs.

One particular blog I enjoy is Threadwatch.org. It’s an internet marketing forum run by Nick W. Basically you join the forum and people post links to other interesting forums or news items related to SEO, marketing and the like. It’s actually really good and really interesting. I suspect the ratio of lurkers to actual participants is pretty high, As is evidenced in RustyBrick of Search Engine Roundtable’s Informal discussion with Tim Mayer of Yahoo. Where Tim admits he reads Threadwatch regularly.

Yesterday came this a thread about CNET turning on trackback for all news items (thread) (News). Ok I’ll admit I saw trackback was curious how it worked, but never had the time to go figure it out. Then this comment was made over at Threadwatch

You’re paying attention, and so are we. Thanks for noticing. I’m aware of the potential for abuse, but it’s worth showing our readers more of the conversation.

John Roberts
CNET News.com (www.news.com)
Product Development

Like I said the lurker to poster ratio is pretty high and now counts two big industry players. So I was now compelled to get trackback working. Trackback doesn’t play with Blogger right out of the box, but you can get a workaround in place pretty quickly by using Haloscan. It’s pretty simple really, and you can get access to the advance features for only $12 a year worth it IMHO.

Lastly in the current environment it took a lot of guts for CNET to rise up above standard corporate policies and embrace the ‘wild west’ that the internet often is. Yea I’m sure they’ll get some people trying to game them, but lets hope they have the fortitude to stick to it for the long term.

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