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Pal’ río

So I’m getting around to working on another form of publishing the most recently updated blogs for the Dominican blogosphere! Here’s what I have in mind.

We’ll be reading the directory feeds by category first and most updated second. This should allow me to break up the 3k(+) blogs and read their RSS/XML feed without timing the server out. Not having a dedicated server is definitely a drawback. Our hosting plan will only allow us to update 50-100 feeds per minute and we’re forced to watch the intervals in which we use the files to read the feeds.

Once the feeds are updated they will be sorted and updated dynamically. Similar to the excerpt. If you send a ping to bd.com, your blog will be moved up in the data base in order to be one of the first 50-100 blogs that are read by the files. Otherwise, your blog may be one of the last to be updated.

Although you ping the site, the list will be sorted by the last entry posted. If you send continuous pings to the site and don’t update your blog, it won’t mean a thing. The bottom line is that the new list will only display the blogs in the order in which they were updated.

At the moment, I am publishing the excerpt’s with an Ajax script. Nifty little thing that Ajax code. Wait until I can write the rest of the code for the list!

Update: After taking a closer look at the layout of the site and the number of posts that are actually published throughout the Dominican blogosphere, I must say that not too many bloggers are actually writing out there… then again I’ve only populated my database with about 200 feeds and the times are erroneous. Hopefully the times and frequency of published posts will reflect a more active blogosphere.

Only time will tell whats really going to happen.

I don’t think that having a polital blog as blog de la semana is such a bad thing during elections week. As I posted on bd.com I wasn’t too sure which one to pick. Not to mention that this whole selection process that people have in mind would never work out. I’m better off just picking one at random, verifying that it’s a ligit blog, has readers, has a decent design and we’re good to go.

For the most part, majority of the blogs in the Dominican blogosphere are hosted on blogger. Which tells me that there is little if any theme changes going on. In other words, looks can’t have too much weight in the selection.

Other then that, I look forward to reviewing the blogs history in order to make my decision. Sometimes its a good one sometimes it’s a bad one… my decision that is.

Code name E87 – BMW’s 1 Series is out on the streets and I’ve seen a few of them already. I think it looks a bit too boxy and over priced for such a small car. However, BMW compensates the price with the 300HP motor under the engine. At $10,000 more over a 02-05 M3, I wouldn’t even look at it to tell you the truth. But who knows what the price will be at in a year or two.

via Emglo Industrial

Let me repeat this again. and add something else to it… Criticize but don’t condemn.

Prepping the Beetle and my references.

Body Parts – Cheap parts but over priced shipping…
Body Parts – Mid America Motorworks – More expensive parts but cheaper shipping.
Preperation Reference 1
Preperation Reference 2
Thread 1 – Forum for prepping your car.
Thread 2 – Forum for prepping your car.
165/80/15R Tires – Found on Ebay!

Besides that this will be the second time the car gets painted… so the experience of doing it before goes a long way. I hope I don’t mess it up. I already took all of the moldings, lights, fenders and bumpers off. Not to mention that I’ve already sanded 3/4 of the car!