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I almost made a fool of myself by typing “Has Dave Winer lost it?”, when I didn’t have a clear understanding of how weblogs.com’s new RSS updates service was meant to be used.
Then, I realised it made much sense, and a visit at Ben Hammersley’s confirmed it:

The idea is that aggregators and desktop readers, before updating, would first check weblogs.com instead of polling the publisher’s server, thereby saving bandwidth all round. It’s a nice solution to a growing problem – especially if you’re hosting lots of weblogs and want to save on bandwidth costs. Which I am. So cool.

However, I don’t find it wise to add another xmlrpc method, when Dave could just aswell use blo.gs’s extended ping method which wraps weblog update and RSS update in a single request.