It don't mean a thing if they can't hear your ping

I almost always ping when i update the blog. The cool thing was, a few minutes after i did that, i could go to the country store or outside the beltway and find this blog at the top of their blogroll and flagged as having new content. My referrer logs indicated that i picked up a few visitors that way.

But in recent days i've noticed that my pings no longer show up on other blogs. I'm like that trading post in the western.... the pass is snowed shut and the telegraph lines are cut....