These are neat little ways to notify other blogs and in turn bloggers that you are linking to them. Pings basically take the bracketed linked words. If I were to say “I just read a great blog on internet neutrality” The internet neutrality would show up in the comments section of the linked blog as a comment, or however that blog handles pings.
Trackbacks work in a similar way but provide more data. Trackbacks are pretty much the standard fair in blog linking these days and naturally. My blog won’t do them!! I’ve been smashing my head on the keyboard trying to figure this out and it just won’t work. I never see that the trackback was sent in the post edit screen on Wordpress.
Oh well I’ll keep smashing.

