Hintonblogger

Alright, hopefully this is the last test post to make sure Technorati is getting my posts automatically.

I just am checking to see how well my blog can ping technorati. This is one area where I think Drupal can improve on the blogging front - integration with common blogging features (the ping concept especially). Right now Drupal only pings ping-o-matic by default and you can only add ping services by adding a module or hard-coding the changes in the ping module.

While I agree with the concept of keeping the Drupal core lean and mean, it seems to make sense that the ping module is configurable. If a person is going to use the ping module (which is part of Drupal core), Drupal should allow that person to choose sites to ping. Perhaps Drupal could offer a default set of sites to ping (and perhaps ping-o-matic is simply the default option). Of course if it really bothered me, I would put in an issue into the ping module asking for that feature (and/or sponsor an enhancement of that module).