A while back, I visited weblogs.com, and interestingly enough the website maintains a list of recently changed weblogs. Many Popularity indexes (like PopDex, for example) make use of the xml file provided by weblogs.com, to create their indexes.

Blogging apps like MT and RadioUserland automatically post change information to weblogs.com. However, with the recent surfeit of domino bloggers and domino blogging tools , it would not be right for this small community to be left out of the popularity sweepstakes.

So, how do I get my website listed on Weblogs.com? You could read their FAQ. But, to cut a long story short - you need to "Ping" their server. To do that, either post your website details from an online form whenever your website gets updated, or better still, send them a XML-RPC message when you update your website.

How do I send an XML-RPC message from a Domino website?

Domino does offer some ways to send XML-RPC messages from a website. One method is to create a scheduled agent that kicks in and sends the message to weblogs.com, whenever you update your weblog. Another method is to manually execute the agent using the ?openagent URL command from your browser.

Heres a short "How-to" article on how to send XML-RPC messages from Domino (with sample code & database)

Elections

8 days to go ! The Havana bar has promised us beer on the house on 27th in the belief that no mhindi will be anywhere around nairobi during the elections! We are gonna clean them out!
My friendly neighbourhood video library owner has promised to give me a framed presidents photograph as a souvenior.