Google has today revealed a new search
service aimed directly at blogs. It uses a blogs RSS or ATOM feed to gather
details from entries for indexing. To get into the blog index you just
need to ping the WebLogs interface every time you publish a new story.

From the ‘About Google BlogSearch’ page
:

If your blog publishes a site feed
in any format and automatically pings an updating service (such as Weblogs.com),
we should be able to find and list it.

If your using Blogsphere for your blog
then there is a built in feature that will ping the Weblogs.com list for
you.  In the main blog configuration on the Story Setup page you should
see the option for the Weblogs Ping. Set this to ‘Always’ or ‘Ask’ and
then when you create a new blog entry Blogsphere will automatically inform
the Weblogs.com list that your site has been updated.

For the past two years around this time
I’ve had to go to my manager and convince the company that Lotusphere is
where I needed to be the following January.  It was a case of working
out costs, sending them to the CIO for approval and waiting for the verdict,
luckily for the past two years the verdict has been yes.

This year it’s a little different, while
I was on my wonderful holiday in Las Vegas the company I work for decided
to announce a major restructuring, one of the things to come out of the
restructuring was the transfer of the IT function from Dublin to Germany.
 Unfortunately for me this means that I am soon to be made redundant.
 It will be a shame to see a wonderful Domino infrastructure that
I built from the ground up being handed over to another administrator but
at the same time the severance package being offered is reasonable.

So when the decision about going to
Lotusphere came up I only had one person to ask and that was myself.  I
said YES  

So see you all in Orlando in January.

Which reminds me, if anybody is looking
for a good IBM Lotus Notes, Lotus Domino and Companion Products administrator
then let me know….