The Trackback Party (Google It) has become so popular, that it has evolved into the Carnival of Trackback Trackbackers. Has it happened to you yet? Have you crashed the party? Or are you the Open Post Host whose party has been crashed by those who, instead of BYOB, brought canned Spam. You’re bound to be one or the other. If not - watch your back! That is what trackbacks seem to be now a-blog-days. Yes, at one time trackbacks were cool and easy when you had an interesting post that you wanted to promote. Now - you trackback to tell others that you are throwing a Trackback Party and they RSVP to inform you of their own Open Trackback Party. Party on trackbackers, but no longer request BYOB due to the increasing incidents involving Molotov cocktails. The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns shows the crazy trackback musical chairs now being played in the blogosphere.

Samatha even pled with her readers to trackback actual blog articles rather than trackbacking about “Open Trackbacks”, advising that you “are more likely to attract a reader”. HA! She thinks trackbackers are seeking readers. Since the arrival of the Trackback Party scene, few bloggers care about readers, seeking instead to attract trackbacks and trackbackers. Let the readers go find some “newspapers”, if there are any left!

If you happen to see a blogger sauntering about sporting trackbacks on his/her back - you know what that means: he/she has been run over by a track!

PS: This post is - “you guessed it” - trackbacked at The Conservative Cat’s “Trackback Wars” and basil’s blog Breakfast.