[Developers] Blog properties and ping idea

[Will Moffat]

> > is where Liz suggestion for automatic population (through a ping
> > service) can be really interesting :)

This is a cool idea!

>  So the ping server seems like an easy
> option which those blog hosting services could be talked into adding,
> since they already have mechanisms for that.

You could just subscribe to weblog.com recent changes:
http://weblogs.com/api.html#10

Tthere were 111 _thousand_ pings in the last hour! Many of which look
like spam blogs. So I think Pat's suggestion of cataloguing individual
posts is a little ambitious :-)

regards,
--Will