Though I'm using the fantastic masterPing tool (by Patrick Ritchie) to ping Technorati, (and others) I still don't seem to be picked up by this service. I also notice that their section on how to ping from Radio Userland is very out of date and makes it look like UserLand don't care. Surely, Radio UserLand should get on to Technorati to fix this error in their page?

I've added my photo to my profile, claimed my blog, but still it doesn't show on any searches. It used to, I know, though that was a year ago or so when I looked last. I guess one doesn't expect to be dropped.

Weblogs.com was the only service I bothered pinging, mainly because Radio did that as a matter of course, along with the Manila sites I host. Though I think that weblogs.com isn't being used by many of these services any longer, probably because it's mostly broken (as it is yesterday and today when I looked) thus, I need to ping several services. Thus, any search in the blogosphere needs to use several services to be complete. This is the Balkanisation of the blogosphere.

Setting up a Pubsub search feed is easy, or it is for me as I've done it several times, sure it could be much, much easier. But setting up a similar service in Technorati and Feedster... Well, I can't.

Technorati will let me set up a feed which is essentially a search on a URL. Thus, I can create a search feed for "www.cybersaps.org" which, seemingly searches for those sites linking to me. But I cannot set up a search feed for "cybersaps" which would return results that don't necessarily link back to me. I say seemingly, because the results only show some of the blogged item, with a load of crap and unnecessary [img] and [IMG miniXmlButton.gif] stuff, which gets in my way.

Feedster: while I am in their index and I'm in there PDQ, and for this I'm very grateful and appreciative, setting up a search feed is again, impossible. Wait, I think I've found it. Boy, Feedster's navigation sucks. Worse: the feeds won't validate! Neither in Dave Winer's nor bad boy's atom/RSS validator.

And to claim my feed in Feedster I need to:

No Need to Click Here - I'm just claiming my feed at Feedster

What for, I don't know.

Pubsub: I love you. Though the terminology used in your website is a little blog-geeky. If only you picked up more blogs in your radar. And if I could edit out livejournal results. Mind, you seem to be the only ones who draw on livejournal. And right now, the site is off-line. (I'm having poor luck with these RSS service at the mo :-(

The long and short of searching the blogoshere: far too complex, far to annoying.

Sad? Wondering about your own echo chamber? I am. I was 90% certain that Bush wouldn't win, that it wouldn't be as close as the polls predicted.

Listening on the internet, reading my usual sites, I figured that Kerry would pull it off.

Now, I'm realising that I've been reading people like me.

Perhaps, most people are like me, that is, most of the rest of the world. We seemed to want Kerry over Bush. Yet, the middle, the heart of America decided to stick with it's war President, it's Christian, god fearing lunatic.