Jason DeFillippo: If you are running any other blog tool that lets you specify sites to ping feel free to add it in and try it.
OK, I'm in. I now ping blo.gs, and blogrolling.com and weblogs.com. It is nice to see that there are now regional services.
What would be really nice is if these services could federate. If this were done, then I could ping one local or topical or fast server which would then send pings on my behalf.
doesn't blo.gs pick up the changes from weblogs.com? from their about page:
"every hour, lists of updated weblogs are imported from antville.org, pitas.com, and weblogs.com."
Anita: yes. As will blogrolling.
Until these guys could work together, we are likely to continue to see the slowest response from the one server that does not pick up changes from the others.