Last Thursday weblogs.com processed just under 2 million (1.96M) pings for the day. When we started talking with Dave Winer, owner and founder of Weblogs.com, a couple months back, the ping totals were barely half of that, and the load even then on the servers made pinging Weblogs a chancy proposition during peak posting times.
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