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title: "Conference blogging and linkbacks"
date: 2002-05-20T15:50:35-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2002/05/20/oooaeh/
author: Les Orchard
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# Conference blogging and linkbacks

<p>From <a href="http://www.aaronsw.com/">Aaron Swartz</a>:<blockquote><i><a href="http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/etcon/notes">Here's an annotated version of the schedule from the Emerging Technologies 2002 conference.</a> Under each session are links to the blog entries about that session.  If I didn't include yours, send me an email...</i></blockquote>You know what would rock for something like this?  Provide a conference schedule, with each event in the schedule as a URL-addressable page or anchor within a page.  Tell bloggers to link to those URLs when blogging about a particular event.  Grab referrers and display links back to blog entries on those pages and on a summary page like Aaron provides.</p>
<p>Automatic conference annotation, and you don't even have to worry whether Aaron included your blog entry or not.</p>
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