25 Oct 2001
Grumble.
I’ve been a little too busy to read a lot of other weblogs lately — not that I can easily track anymore which ones have been recently updated since the changeover at weblogs.com. The SubHonker Filter, which I used to track my favorite blogs with, is now the “BlogTracker” — but it’s hampered by the fact that most weblogs aren’t yet equiped to send weblogs.com the RPC ping necessary to inform them of their updated status.
I’m now using a fun little PHP script from yaysoft.com which lets weblogs.com know when I’ve updated my weblog. But, I can’t get the BlogTracker to recognize my weblog like it did before, so anyone who uses it to track hit-or-miss.org (along with other blogs) will have to go through and update their account to recognize my weblog again.
Your blog is showing up just fine for me in BlogTracker. But I did I have to go through and update. I suspect that we’ve basically lost everyone who was there before the weblogs.com change. I’m sure that after I do my php script (or whatever), that I’ll have a second Mermaniac item. I think the whole changeover is really stupid, and I’m kinda pissed off that it seems designed to just rule out everyone who isn’t a Weblogs.com/Editthispage.com/Userland.com user. Or maybe it’s just me.
Bill | 25 Oct 2001