David F. Gallagher: The Web’s Missing Links. And because they can be updated automatically to reflect new incoming links, backlinks turn static Web pages into active hubs of related information.
I link to this not only because he quotes me, but because he really did his homework and learned about all the various options of linkbacks, trackbacks, pingbacks, referrer scripts, and so forth. Even after the original article was written, he kept up with the latest developments (see the Related info
sidebar). And the page itself uses Sean Nolan’s referrers script. Slick.
It is worth noting that this same 9K article is also published in Technology Review, except it has pop-under ads, banner ads on all four sides, does not have the related info
updates, does not show referrers, weighs in at 171K of graphics and nested table markup, and costs $4.50 to read.
