Sure you have, we all do.  That’s a common post topic on other blogs, so it must be a common occurrence.
As a Blogsite owner, you have internal RSS feeds that can help.  Your intelligence channels are configured to act as your own private clipping service. 
Moreover, these private channels may include information you don’t necessarily [...]

You know that auto-pinging brings you traffic.But, did you know your content is indexed when you auto-ping?  In other words, you get:

more weight in the search engines
more chance of having the content the searcher is looking to find

Your content will resonate very fast.