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Last night’s attempt to ping Salon’s server with my own code was just about successful (I sent the address to my main Web site instead of my Weblog by accident). I’ll get it right this morning.
Also, in a comment, Christian points out that WordPress and Movable Type can do this directly. I’m not surprised to hear this, since as I’ve looked into it, I’ve found the whole thing to be pretty simple. So I’ll investigate further and see what I can figure out.
[…] In my ongoing quest to figure out how to let the Salon Weblog server know that former Salon Weblogs no longer using Radio UserLand (which, it turns out, was developed by just the sort of lunatic you’d expect) have been updated, I’ve been able to confirm what Christian mentioned in a comment. It is indeed possible to ping the Salon Weblog server directly from within WordPress and Movable Type when posting an entry (and if posting this entry is noted, that means I’ve gotten it to work). And though TypePad doesn’t support this directly, there does seem to be a workaround. […]
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