I've written a rudimentary RSS feed reader in perl, but, I want to take advantage of ping services so that I don't need to check every feed to see which ones have updated. I know that there are ping services like blo.gs and weblogs.com, but I'm unsure about how I can leverage those. Can anyone point me to a site explaining how this is done?

Also, if there already is a perl module that will do all this for me, by all means mention that.

Finally, I'm also trying to get the full text from a post, even when the RSS feed only has partial text information. Right now, I'm just regexping the actual html page (which is a bit cumbersome, because I need to know what the structure of the page is like, and if the structure changes, I'm screwed). Anyone have a better idea for this?

Thanks,

James

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