Ajax version of BD.com excerpt

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.