Backbone JS: can one view trigger updates in other views?

Question

You might want to have a read of this discussion of Backbone pub/sub events:

http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/2011/07/19/references-routing-and-the-event-aggregator-coordinating-views-in-backbone-js/

I like to add it in as a global event mechanism:

Backbone.pubSub = _.extend({}, Backbone.Events);

Then in one view you can trigger an event:

Backbone.pubSub.trigger('my-event', payload);

And in another you can listen:

Backbone.pubSub.on('my-event', this.onMyEvent, this);