Pingback. What is it?
This is really just a test post to check that pingbacks are working between this, my personal blog, and ‘that’, one of my company blogs. (See below.)
WordPress is said to support pingbacks automatically. So, when I mention my blog post over at NZ Hosting’s blog, a comment should end up over there automatically — having been automatically verified as to this post actually containing a link to the blog over there. Clear as mud eh?! 
I’m going to add a second link to a blog post where I first learnt how both pingbacks and trackbacks work, without which I’d not be writing this anyway, so it seems only fair. 
Assuming this works, I’ll be fairly impressed. But I have to say, I can already see a couple of potential ‘gotchas’.
Well, it didn’t work. I’m not sure why. Pingbacks are enabled on both posts. I mean, there’s no comment or any mention of this post at the company blog, and there’s no mention of the company blog on this post either — though I wouldn’t expect the latter anyway. Maybe the link text ‘blog post’ needed to be more like the blog title to qualify? Hmmm. How to find out?
Ah! It seems to have worked the other way around, IE. mentioning this post in a post at the company site. I was sent an email by WordPress at this site asking me to accept or reject the ping back. The theme on this sites also separates the pingback off into its own ‘trackbacks’ category, which is interesting. (Most themes just place pingbacks within the comment stream.)
Also interesting is that the pingback has included an excerpt from from the company blog post. This didn’t use to be a feature of pingbacks, and consequently had many people saying the older trackbacks were “better”.
Still no sign of the the original pingback to the company post. :/