il maestro ignoto

what
A service which allows you to inform twitter when you publish a new earth shattering piece of work on your blog, not unlike this one you are reading.

how
Most blogging tools allow you to add ping servers to your blog. When you write a new blog article, the ping servers are automatically informed and they send out their merry little bots to check it out. What happens after this is hazy, but I have been told there’s cheese, a mice and a chap called Jerome involved. I get very confused at this point as I can’t stand cheese.
In this particular case however, cheese be damned, my little bot goes off to twitter and reports that it’s found a new article fresh off the press/printing block/cesspit (This varies depending on the quality of your writing - in my case, usually the latter I fear).

why
Twitter is a way for ne’r do wells like yours truly to kill time at UK bus stops. Why should this have a reason?

Here, I ‘ll give you one.

You know who this guy: (Mike Arrington)is and this girl: (Abby Lee) and probably him: (Steve Yegge) too, almost definitely this one: (Tim Bray), but I bet you have no idea who this one is. Only kidding, I meant him. I ‘ll assume you also use Twitter, if you don’t then what on earth are you doing reading this epistle? Go away, run as fast as your legs can lift you. For those of you who do, then following http://twitter.com/bl_og means that when our unknown friend above finally writes his Magnum Opus, you will be one of the first people to read it. Hot cakes I believe they are called.

In English:
Bring more readers to your brilliant blog with minimal effort on your part.

alright! enough hype, let me in

Steps:

1. Login to your blog
2. Add the URL http://ekanem.de/twitter/ping/ to your blog’s ping server list
3. Go work on that killer essay which will propel you to the limelight and provide you with all the oysters you ‘ll ever need.