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I accidentally came across the Technorati Ping Configurations page today. Never being one to say no to wasting time learning stuff, I created a quick-and-dirty console application to ping Technorati:

private static readonly string technorati = "http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping";


public static string Ping(string name, string url)
{
    HttpWebRequest request = HttpWebRequest.Create(technorati) as HttpWebRequest;

string pingData = 
    @"<?xml version=""1.0""?>
        <methodCall>
            <methodName>weblogUpdates.ping</methodName>
            <params>
                <param>
                    <value>{0}</value>
                </param>
                <param>
                    <value>{1}</value>
                </param>
            </params>
        </methodCall>";

pingData = string.Format(pingData, name, url);

request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "text/xml";
request.ContentLength = pingData.Length;

using (System.IO.StreamWriter writer = new System.IO.StreamWriter(request.GetRequestStream()))
{
    writer.Write(pingData);
    writer.Flush();
}

using (HttpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse)
{
    using (System.IO.StreamReader reader = new System.IO.StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
    {
        return reader.ReadToEnd();
    }
}


}