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Among the various news aggregation portals (Bloglines, Artima, etc.), I really like the layout and variety of Technorati’s ruby tag (also linked in the right-hand column.) Artima has a tendency to forget about the site for a few days here and there. Technorati allows you to trigger an update by pinging its service.

The Technorati docs are a bit sketchy, though, so I’m going to save you a bit of time, should you want to join in. Here’s how to add your blog to the ruby tag on Technorati:

1. Add Dublin Core subject tags to each entry in your RSS or Atom feed, using the word “ruby” as the content.

 
 

 ...

   
     
     cult
     ruby

2. Issue a ping to your feed. So, in my case, I used http://redhanded.hobix.com/index.xml in the URL box.
3. If you’d like to automate updates to Technorati, setup your blog software to ping Technorati.

 begin
     server = XMLRPC::Client.new( "rpc.technorati.com", "/rpc/ping", 80 )

     begin
         result = server.call( "weblogUpdates.ping", 
                      "Your blog's name", "http://your.blog.com/index.xml" )
     rescue XMLRPC::FaultException => e
         puts "Error: [#{ e.faultCode }] #{ e.faultString }" 
     end
 rescue Exception => e
     puts "Error: #{ e.message }" 
 end