GunBloggers is a RSS feed aggregate site. It collects stories from member
sites and calculates the most popular stories in the community and displays
the top 10 at the top of the page. Below that are all of the member articles
for the last 2 days, in order of posting.
The site was written because one of my favorite sites, the
TTLB
Gunblogs site has been broken since the first of the year. I wanted to
see something like that work, and being a software developer I wanted to
write it myself. The back-end uses several python modules (web.py,
feedparser and xmltramp) and a MySQL database running on a Debian Linux server.
The current pages are functional, but ugly. My CSS design skills are weak at
best, as you can see. If someone wants to make design suggestions, feel
free. The current CSS file is style.css
You may notice the google ads on the left side. It uses a random member blog
adword id every time the page is requested. Blogs in the top stories list
have double the chance of being displayed as the rest of them. The adword
id's were scraped from member pages automagically.
UPDATE:Google AdWords is apparently refusing to show ads
on sites with pro-gun messages. So I've turned off this feature for now. I
don't want to be responsible for anyone's ads being pulled (other than my
own). So much for Google not being Evil.
The posting times have been fixed as well as possible, I think. I am now
tagging it with the time that GunBlogger.com first sees the article
available in the feed. This prevents some blogs from pre-dating their posts
so that they always appear at the top and gives a fairer representation of
what articles are posted when.
If you have any questions or comments, you can contact me at editor -
libertynews org
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