Kevin Burton talks about a possible problem with the various ping servers that display changed weblogs. The basic issue is that other services rely on the ping servers yet they are still free and open. Obviously, that's the way you want to keep it but is that possible?
After looking at the front page of Weblogs.Com, my question is whether or not a ping service is even necessary. The page is mainly showing spam blogs so where is the value in that? I remember using Weblogs.Com as the entry point to new blogs but now I find those thru other blogs and use RSS for the notification of new entries.
Of course, it would see that search engines and services like Technorati need the ping sites to keep their data updated quickly but maybe there is a better way that hasn't been found yet. I don't have the answer but I have a feeling pinging a server to indicate a change in my site isn't part of it either.
Posted by Josh at September 27, 2005 11:42 PM