I was reading AndrÈ Venter's post about Technorati, linked from This archive post has the details about the Technorati pinger. I read through the second post, found the wiki link and read through the Radio Userland posts (all two of them). I wondered if, with the new implementation of Trackback in Radio, the code exists to ping Technorati, too. I started perusing Radio.root and I think I found the right place:

system.verbs.apps.weblogsCom

Maybe if Jake Savin is reading this… :>

…he can look at this and see if this can be added as a user pref, something like “Ping Technorati?” with a checkbox.

As for now, people who use the web interface of Radio, just add this:

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

to the “URLs to Ping:” box on the Radio home page. If your Radio subscription has run out, re-up now to get Trackback. It's worth it!

P.S.> Why not be able to ping a person? I know that's Trackback, but I want “Track-before”. I guess that's email. I read a post this morning about that, but now I can't remember where it came from.