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It's interesting watching the comments around Matt's entry on Yet Another Pinger. They mostly seem to focus on visual features vs. the actual functionality provided by the Ping-O-Matic service. I use Ping-o-Matic because it does one thing.

Pinging lets dozens of services know you've updated your site and increases traffic to your blog.

But honestly, this is what I really care about with regards to Ping-O-Matic:

http://rpc.pingomatic.com

That URL is in my blog software tool in the configuration settings for "Notification Services". Whether through the web, through an offline weblog editor, blog by e-mail, whatever ... once I've got new or updated content, that extra special ping is sent to Ping-O-Matic. And that's it. I probably don't ever have to care about notification of any blog monitoring services again unless Ping-O-Matic goes away and I need to change the notification services URL.

Outright or partially copying the design I could care less about, but I certainly can understand someone's offense if they designed something and were not given credit for it being an inspiration (partially or wholly) for another service. But I'm not here to quibble about 3px or rounded edges. I don't care about that. In fact I really don't care about that. The reason I use Ping-O-Matic is becuase I don't care about the design of the site. I care about its one and true raison d'etre. What's that again?

Pinging lets dozens of services know you've updated your site and increases traffic to your blog.

And it's reason for being is realized in that magic notification URL. Once again ... in case you missed it.

http://rpc.pingomatic.com

If at some point in the future Ping-O-Matic is not available or not the best, well then maybe I'll change that notification URL. But right now Ping-O-Matic is Dyn-O-Mite.

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