Re: [syndication] Re: Please ping Syndic8 (and PubSub too...)

[Ross M Karchner <ross@karchner.com>]

I think Ping-O-Matic has this covered?

http://pingomatic.com/blog/archives/2004/05/20/metapinging/

Stephen Downes wrote:

> 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

-Ross