Fly on the E-Commerce Cyberwall

Technology 1, Old Fogey 0
I spent a good part of the past weekend trying to expand my involvement in the blogosphere.

I did a bit more commenting in other blogs than I usually have done. And you'll notice a couple of links in my weekend posts to other blog posts that I found interesting. I even tried to use trackbacks to alert the bloggers to whom I had linked of what I had written about them.

Boy, what a mess I created! First of all, I learned that Blogger doesn't support trackbacks. So I tried some third-party trackback tools to ping the other blogs and inform them of my post.

Big mistake! I apparently tripped some spam filters by doing so, because I seem to have lost my ability to interact in any way with Typepad-run blogs ever since.

So I guess technology (specifically the technology devised to defeat blog spammers) has defeated my innocent attempts to become more involved in the blogosphere. I'll still try to keep up with more blogs, but **sigh** I guess I'll be a bit more wary about interacting in the blogosphere in the future.

By the way, if you've had any similar experiences, or know ways to get unblocked from Typepad blogs, drop me a comment below.
Jeff

Labels: blogging