John Gruber, aka Daring Fireball, says Take Your TrackBacks and Dangle
Quote: One of Movable Type's most distinguishing features is something called TrackBack. I don't use it for Daring Fireball, nor do I plan to.
Gruber makes some good arguments as to why TrackBack is problematic, but his fallback to referrer logs I find uncompelling. At least TrackBack attempts to raise the level of semantic information, and as others point out, TrackBack isn't conflated with other server access goop.
TrackBack may not be the exact right thing at the moment, but it's at least an attempt at forward progress.
Memo to audience: I'm mainly blogging this as a test of the MT one click bookmarklet, which is reminding me that yes indeed, editing in a browser still sucks.