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so far i’m not to happy with flock, and thats just after loading it. the whole flock bar seems like a decent idea. but I’m seriously hatting that in order to use it, i also have to have bookmarks showing. they should make the flock bar movable, as on my laptop i’d like to have it at the top right next to navigation…

I’m using the blog posting feature right now to write this post, but i’m sure theres got to be a plugin like this for firefox. Also their blog post editor allows me to enter tags, but doesn’t display current tags.

the tabs, and pretty much over layout just feels annoying at the moment, maybe it’ll grow on me. or maybe i’m just not their target market.

check it out : http://flock.com

Blogged with Flock

Tags: flock, software

after having to come up with my own fix for technorati’s pinging issues. I’m encountering a new one.

My blog listing is pretty much updating fine @ technorati, but when i check the time of my last ping it’s now saying 6 days ago, even it’s showing my post from 2 hours ago?!

wtf.

it’s been a day or so and my technorati fix is working alot better than i thought it would be. everytime I check my pings it’s never more than an hour since the last one. So I’ll consider that successful

**update**

I’ve been getting more traffic, but for some reason the pings aren’t going through? I’m changing th3e inval, so maybe this will fix it.

technorati’s still not pinging my site properly, and according to the forums i’m not the only one.

I went to check up on it today, only to see that my site hadn’t been pinged since my last manual request.

So i decided to just add some code to my site to make sure technorati gets at least one ping.

on average i get about 120 visits per day, so i added a script to my wordpress index.php file.

$pingCheck=date(“i”);
$pingCheck*=1;
$pingCheck%=15;

if($pingCheck==0){

$foo=file_get_contents(“http://www.technorati.com/ping/http%3A%2F%2Felsid.net”);

}

i get the current times minutes, and then check to see if it’s a factor of 15. if so ping technorati. this works for me because i don’t normally post a crazy amount of post in one day. and somebodies gonna come to the site at the right time at least once a day (about 6-8 right times so far ).

if you post alot (more than 10 a day) this might not be for you, or you can mod it to check against the last ping.

hope this helps

Out of all the xml-rpc functions / classes etc out there i like this one the best. Why? its simple.

I’ll post a rewrite/ extended version once i get to it.

# Using the XML-RPC extension to format the XML package
$request = xmlrpc_encode_request(“weblogUpdates.ping”, array(“Copenhagen Ruby Brigade”, “http://copenhagenrb.dk/”) );

# Using the cURL extension to send it off,
# first creating a custom header block
$header[] = “Host: rpc.technorati.com”;
$header[] = “Content-type: text/xml”;
$header[] = “Content-length: “.strlen($request) . “\r\n”;
$header[] = $request;

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, “http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping”); # URL to post to
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 ); # return into a variable
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header ); # custom headers, see above
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, ‘POST’ ); # This POST is special, and uses its specified Content-type
$result = curl_exec( $ch ); # run!
curl_close($ch);

echo $result;

check it out : http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2596

well i took all posts offline and enabled them 5 at a time (for some reason technorati will only index 5 at a time). still no luck. so now i have about 40-60 posts that aren’t indexed

i started to wonder why my new content has barely been getting hits. Well a quick look at technorati shows that the pings are jacked up again. no idea why it’s only the elsid.net site. but hey hopefully it gets fixed (again) for good this time

technorati seems to be having some issues :
http://support.technorati.com/topic/1114

So my blogs not updating at all – crap