There was a time when blogs (known as Weblogs in those ancient times) were considered a personal diary, relegated to chatty teenagers. Then as more people found out about them, they began typing away. I myself keep a blog on the my personal site and find it therapeutic and liberating to freely express my views on a variety of topics.
As blogging gathered critical mass, companies started to show interest. Now many news and information sites have a heavy blog presence as well, manned by their editors and other contributors. Our own company saw a slow start to blogging, but now we have a number of power bloggers who contribute to the wealth of our online existence.
Many people now get their daily news from blogs, but one of the areas that blogs have begun to encroach on Web pages is what's known as trackback. This is a means by which a blog site can be notified when another blogger makes a mention of them in the form of a url link. Generally, the notification involves a summary of data to be passed back to the mentioned blog site and most sites choose to display this information, in effect providing a link back to the blogger's post. It's a courtesy move in response to the mention. By the way, trackback was devised and promoted by the renowned blog software maker, Movable Type.
Now many sites have decided to incorporate trackback in their own pages, and we now provide this service to our readers. When you read our pages on tmcnet.com, feel free to reference them in your blogs and if your blogging software is equipped with auto-discovery, we will receive your message (known as Ping). To view the trackbacks or get the Ping url (to trackback manually) just click on 
on the our pages.
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