Cadenhead: King of Ping

Via Dave Winer, here’s an interesting post by Rogers Cadenhead, who worked on weblogs.com with Dave over the past several months.  He closes with this:

We’re not just considering extending the API, we’re hard at work on it now. There’s a definite sense of urgency in developing a rich set of extensions to the existing ping semantics. The goal is to support and deliver highly reliable infrastructure for basic ping for free to the community. That’s a good idea, but that effort isn’t cheap, and will be increasingly expensive as the traffic loads continue to grow. Free basic pings in part depend on VeriSign's ability to deploy premium services on top of them that customers need and will pay for. That’s a strong motivator to get the API extended. 

In any event, I appreciate the great resource Rogers has been throughout the acquisition and transition processes, and it’s good to hear that Rogers wants to go further in this area. We’d be happy to work with Rogers on helping him realize his vision for ping. I think our goals for the future of ping are highly congruent.