Re: Please ping Syndic8 (and PubSub too...)

[Stephen Downes <Stephen.Downes@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca>]

Hiya,

The practice of pinging is rapidly becoming something that will give
established aggregation siets a type of lock-in, as it will be
increasingly difficult to get bloggers to ping new (and increasingly
numerous) aggregators. For a variety of reasons, it is preferable to
have numerous aggregators - to help ease the RSS load on individual
sites, for example, and to allow the proliferation of niche
aggregators. For this reason may I recommend that someone set up a
'ping-central' that will allow blogs to ping once, with the ping
echoing to any aggregators that register for the service. Should anyone
author the code, I would be happy to host it if needed; I have ample
bandwidth and server space (no Java, please).

-- Stephen

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   Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 10:17:58 -0400
   From: "Bob Wyman" <bobwyman@pubsub.com>
Subject: RE: Please ping Syndic8 (and PubSub too...)

While your updating your code to ping Syndic8, please also consider pinging
PubSub.com. If you ping us, we'll fetch and match your content to our user's
subscriptions much faster then if we have to crawl for your new entries. We
take either weblogUpdates.ping or weblogUpdates.extendedPing messages at:

        http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

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Stephen Downes ~ Senior Researcher ~ E-Learning Research Group
National Research Council Canada ~ Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
http://www.downes.ca  ~  stephen@downes.ca
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