slyde - 3:10 am on Apr 30, 2008 (gmt 0)

and how would i do that?

in the header section of my index.html i have the announcer tag which, before i knew to add, readers kept saying i didnt even have a feed, but after i added the code below, that problem got fixed... i thought that this code would be doing the pinging that you are referring to...

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Slydesblog" href="http://example.com/rss.xml" />