Chasing the Wind

18 responses to “Blogrolling List”

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   Vox

   July 10, 2004 at 3:49 am

   Damn – throws me way down the list.

   Didn’t considered that alphabetical order thing when I picked my name…..

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2. Vox

   July 10, 2004 at 4:12 am

   Scary Monsters
   I happened to be over at Chasing the Wind this early morning and decided to follow a link in his blogroll. At that site I saw a link to a…

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   Michael

   July 10, 2004 at 10:51 am

   Eeep! You saw scary monsters here? You saw a link to a… a what? Eeep!

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   Uptown Girl

   July 10, 2004 at 5:15 pm

   I’m way down there with you, Vox – – so I think I’m in good company 🙂

   Michael, ever think about putting it in reverse alpha order? *heh*

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   spinthemoon

   July 10, 2004 at 5:16 pm

   Not complaining or anything, but noticed that my blog isn’t emphasised even though it’s been updated w/in the last 24 hours.

   Just sayin’.

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   Michael

   July 10, 2004 at 7:02 pm

   I know the reason. Let me do a little digging…

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   Michael

   July 10, 2004 at 7:26 pm

   Okies, here’s what I know: Blogrolling.com is the site that I use to maintain that list of links. They maintain a “ping form” to find out if a blog has been updated. In other words, when I post, I automatically “ping” their service, they ping back to see if I’ve been updated. There are several ping services, but apparently they all talk to each other. If you ping one of them, within 10 minutes they all know.

   I checked through the Livejournal tech support stuff, and apparently there’s an option to do this. Details are here, but grrrr it’s only for paid users.

   No worries – you can work around it; you’ll just have to do it manually. Since I’m pulling my “recently updated” list from blogrolling.com, the fastest way to appear updated on Chasing the Wind is to ping Blogrolling directly. They have a form you can use, and it’s straightforward: Fill in “Spin the Moon” and your URL, “http://www.livejournal.com/~spinthemoon/” and press the “Ping” button. I did that just now, and presto, you appear as updated on my blog.

   If you get tired of that trick, you can do as I do – WordPress is supposed to ping automatically, but it doesn’t. I made a link I can just click on. I made one for Pinging “Spin the Moon”; just drag this link to your desktop, and click it when you want the world to know you’re updated. While the first form I showed you will give you instant gratification, this second method might take 10 minutes for my blog to hear the news.

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   Michael

   July 10, 2004 at 7:43 pm

   I see from Vox and Uptown Girl that they liked the “recent blogs on top” method.

   Hmm. Maybe I’ll rename them to “A Uptown Girl” and… um… “A Vox”.

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   spinthemoon

   July 10, 2004 at 11:23 pm

   You are too good to me.

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    Michael

    July 11, 2004 at 11:45 am

    I’m just happy that you’re emphasized now. 🙂

    I’ve noticed that while most of the blogs ping somebody, not all of them do. I stopped in at the Cheesemistress this morning and found she’s posted new stuff, but she’s not emphasized. She had a fun story about a little butcher lady, so I’m glad I clicked her anyway.

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    Uptown Girl

    July 11, 2004 at 6:16 pm

    I used to have that same no ping issue with Blogrolling and used the ping form for some time – – and then I thought why not add the url to my “pinging” option in my MT.

    Login
    Weblog Configuration
    Preferences
    Publicity / Remote Interfaces / TrackBack
    Add this line of code in the box: http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
    Scroll to the bottom and hit “Save”

    Then for those who use MT when they update their blogs and if they have ping set to work then it will auto ping Blogrolling.

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    Courtney

    July 12, 2004 at 11:37 am

    Yeah- reverse alpha order! I’m sure Spin the Moon would approve as well 🙂

    Dude, all your good ones are at the bottom now.

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    Michael

    July 12, 2004 at 2:52 pm

    Yeah… I’m thinking I made everybody unhappy equally. 😛

    I can’t take this kind of pressure. I’m changing them to Random order.

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    Uptown Girl

    July 12, 2004 at 8:50 pm

    And I just looked and I’m still one the bottom! I can’t even randomly move up your roll. 😉

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    Michael

    July 12, 2004 at 10:07 pm

    It’s random, Uptown. You’re 5th on the list now. 🙂

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16. 

    Courtney

    July 13, 2004 at 3:55 pm

    Alpha please. I know I complained. Random is too hard to follow. We’ll just keep in mind that you save the best for last.

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    Michael

    July 13, 2004 at 4:17 pm

    If I’m reading a mass of blogs, I just start at the top and click all the ones that strike my fancy. The order doesn’t matter to me at all.

    If I’m looking for a particular blog, this random thing drives me crazy. Okies, back to alphabetical. I liked Vox best when she was on the bottom.

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    Uptown Girl

    July 13, 2004 at 4:47 pm

    i think the alpha is the best way cause then i know who is where and not reading through your whole roll – – and i really wasn’t complaining – – i was just teasing you – – cause to be honest i’m thrilled to be on your roll at all 😉

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