I Want to Be a Better Neuron

Looking at Technorati this morning, I realized that none of the entries on my hand-coded weblogs are showing up there, presumably because I haven't been sending update pings to weblog notification services like Weblogs.Com, Blo.gs, and Ping-o-Matic.

For a weblog to be a properly firing neuron in the information-gathering nervous system that Jon Udell describes on InfoWorld, tools like Technorati must learn in real time what's being linked, and by whom.

To fix this, I'm writing a PHP class library to ping notification services over XML-RPC, using Edd Dumbill's XML-RPC for PHP library.

The code works successfully for Weblogs.Com and Ping-o-Matic, but I haven't had any luck calling Blo.gs over XML-RPC.

According to the documentation, I should be able to call the site's XML-RPC server at http://ping.blo.gs/, port 80, with the method weblogupdates.ping and parameters "Ekzemplo" (weblog title), "http://www.ekzemplo.com" (weblog link).

I can't get this to work with my own PHP code or the Dumpleton XML-RPC debugger, so I'm hunting for examples of working code that connects to the Blo.gs XML-RPC server.

php · wordzilla · xml-rpc · 2004/12/22 · 7 COMMENTS · Link

Comments

But when you already ping Ping-O-Matic - why bother with pinging weblogs.com and blo.gs? Ping-O-Matic already pings those for you!

If you want to ping other sites besides Ping-O-Matic those should be ones that aren't in the Ping-O-Matic set. For example local ping services like the one from pycs.net or stuff like Topic-Exchange.

#1 · Georg Bauer · 2004/12/22

For the moment, I'm only pinging Ping-O-Matic. But I figure there are users out there who would rather ping Weblogs.Com and Blo.gs directly, so I'm coding those options too.

#2 · Rogers Cadenhead · 2004/12/22

Not sure which are your "hand-coded" sites, but I thought I'd let you know of my recent problems with Technorati - because maybe it's the same issue for you? Basically Technorati wasn't indexing my blog because I used excerpts and not full content on the homepage, but Dave Sifry and Kevin Marks have since fixed it up for me:
www.readwriteweb.com

#3 · Richard MacManus · 2004/12/22

I'm publishing Workbench, and Cruel Site of the Day with my own PHP/MySQL code and choosing stories for the Drudge Retort with my own PHP/MySQL aggregator.

At some point, I'm going to mash all of these little coding projects together and release a weblogging tool.

#4 · Rogers Cadenhead · 2004/12/22

Don't matter what you're coding brother, you didn't vote for Bush and your code is flawed!

#5 · neolibtourist · 2004/12/23

For best results injected yourself into Technorati, you should ping Technorati...

www.technorati.com

MHO.

#6 · Randy Charles Morin · 2004/12/23

Thanks. I'm getting Technorati by hitting Ping-o-Matic.

#7 · Rogers Cadenhead · 2004/12/24