Steve Rubel at MicroPersuasion thinks trackbacks are dying. He cites tests of news trackback features at CNET and Yahoo that didn’t last as indicators that enthusiasm about trackback is waning.

One topic that often comes up in conversations about blogging is how do you define a blog.

A new UK-based hosted blog service came out of private beta last week and is now open for business.

PRWeb is best known for being in the news distribution business. With the acquisition by public relations software firm Vocus last week, PRWeb has bumped up it’s own presence in the news.

But Will They Send Them Too?

On the heels of Six Apart’s renewed commitment toward the TrackBack as a social protocol and a web standard, comes related news that PRWeb is adopting/enabling TrackBacks within its press releases.

PRWeb officially announced the launch of their support of trackback functionality with press releases.

Yahoo News is gearing up to implement trackbacks.

Steve Rubel’s post in which he explains his reason for rejecting a trackback from Jeremy Pepper has produced a blizzard of comments-26, along with three trackbacks, at last count.

Marc Orchant discusses how Weblogs Inc. and Boing Boing are integrating trackbacks via Technorati, thereby avoiding link spam.

You all know what trackbacks are, right? The pings that you set up between a post on your blog with a post on someone else’s blog in order to link the two …

“Show me the content!” asks Jol Cr in response to our announcement yesterday on the launch of Blogging Planet.

Tom Foremski, publisher of Silicon Valley Watcher and ex-FT correspondent, writes a terrific piece …