The hits I get after updating this blog:

Those blog indexers work fast. Immediately after updating, I checked my log file and this is what I saw:

206.188.0.11 - - [24/Apr/2006:15:20:28 -0400] "GET /blog/index.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 33997 "-" "Java/1.5.0_03"
206.188.0.11 - - [24/Apr/2006:15:20:28 -0400] "GET /blog/2006/04/quick_nmap_for_different_oses.html HTTP/1.1" 200 9707 "-" "Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.0"
70.85.178.146 - - [24/Apr/2006:15:20:29 -0400] "GET /blog/index.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 33997 "" "edgeio-retriever (www.edgeio.com)"
65.19.150.209 - - [24/Apr/2006:15:20:37 -0400] "GET /blog/ HTTP/1.1" 200 38102 "-" "OmniExplorer_Bot/6.52 (+http://www.omni-explorer.com) WorldIndexer"
64.158.138.84 - - [24/Apr/2006:15:20:43 -0400] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 404 287 "-" "Blogslive (info@blogslive.com)"
64.158.138.84 - - [24/Apr/2006:15:20:43 -0400] "GET /blog/index.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 33997 "-" "Blogslive (info@blogslive.com)"
209.18.119.138 - - [24/Apr/2006:15:20:51 -0400] "GET /blog/index.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 33997 "-" "Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.0"
209.18.119.138 - - [24/Apr/2006:15:20:51 -0400] "GET /blog/index.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 33997 "-" "Java/1.5.0_05"
209.18.119.138 - - [24/Apr/2006:15:20:52 -0400] "GET /blog/2006/04/quick_nmap_for_different_oses.html HTTP/1.1" 200 9707 "-" "Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.0"
209.191.83.2 - - [24/Apr/2006:15:21:02 -0400] "GET /blog/index.xml HTTP/1.0" 200 33997 "-" "Yahoo-Blogs/v3.9 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/crawling/crawling-02.html )"
209.237.228.229 - - [24/Apr/2006:15:21:10 -0400] "GET /blog HTTP/1.0" 301 313 "-" "Technoratibot/0.7"
209.237.228.229 - - [24/Apr/2006:15:21:10 -0400] "GET /blog/ HTTP/1.0" 200 38102 "-" "Technoratibot/0.7"
209.237.228.229 - - [24/Apr/2006:15:21:11 -0400] "GET /blog/atom.xml HTTP/1.0" 200 93963 "-" "Technoratibot/0.7"
209.237.228.229 - - [24/Apr/2006:15:21:18 -0400] "GET /blog/index.xml HTTP/1.0" 200 33997 "-" "Technoratibot/0.7"

Thus Technorati and the others can keep a pretty good pulse on exactly what people are blogging about at any given moment. This didn't happen with Presstopia.