scriptygoddessMy reads list is kept on blogrolling, and a good number of those reads ping weblogs.com, like I do. I get a nice little "newly posted!" pointer when that ping occurs.
Well, did. Problem was, my site has, for the last several months, been getting an error when it tried pinging weblogs.com. I don't know how many others have been having this problem, but I'm guessing a fair number, since weblogs.com is just getting overloaded, apparently.
Then I discovered that you can ping blogrolling directly, so no matter if weblogs.com gets your ping or not, everyone who has you on their blogrolling list can still see that you've updated.
Here's the link to blogrolling.com's faq on it: http://www.blogrolling.com/docs_ping.phtml#f1;
Or for lazy people like me, here's my shortened version how to do this in MT:
In your blog's configuration, go to Preferences and down to the Publicity / Remote Interfaces / TrackBack section. Under "Notify the following sites when I update my blog:"'s "Other" section, paste the following URL:
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
That's it. Now I'm right back up displaying the fact I post way too often.
