Is it getting cloudy?
A bit earlier this year, blo.gs added support "for
services like weblogs.com
and blo.gs to
share their data in real-time". Perhaps if the
participants were open
to feedback, we could come up with a solution where no one
organization controls the information. It seems that
blo.gs already has an extendedPing API with support
for both the url of the weblog and the rss feed. And a changes.xml which includes
the rss information.