supposedly i should be pinging weblogs automatically everytime i publish, that is at least the setting that i have on, but re nicky's tag that doesn't seem to be true....this is not an official post....this is a test of the auto-ping system, i'll publish and then go an manually ping....if it has pinged in theory i should get either a no change or a you've pinged in the last 5 minutes........let the test begin........