Behold the marvel of a manual trackback:

Sometimes I’ll take the real lazy way out and leave a comment that basically says “Cool, if you want to know my opinion about this, here’s a link to my post.”

It is the lack of log access on services that produces these ugly workarounds. AB used to have it all down pat, even provided a stock install of Analog with every blog. However, as Maestro health and finances deteriorated, all of this fat was cut off. Ani-nouto is a barefoot shoemaker here. One way or the other, Feedburner, Sitemeter, Google Analytics, and trackbacks flourish. Granted, there is more than a whiff of "push" technology here. The owner may be too lazy to check, or would not incorporate links back. Commenting this way moves the burden from blogger to commenter somewhat. So I can see why this sort of mechanism may be looking attractive, especially while animeblogging remains rather low-traffic.