UUpdates Wiki

If you have a questions regarding the site or the technology running the site feel free to add it to this page.

What is RSS and what is it good for?

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. The idea is that certain web pages are analogous to published media such as newspapers (some are more than analogous, they are newspapers :-). Periodically the web page is updated with new content and rather than push the entire content to the reader, the reader can use RSS to get just the headlines and links to the full content. In PmWiki-land, one of the pages that is updated in this fashion is the RecentChanges. Oddly enough it can also be used as a WikiTrail and thus you can get an RSS feed of the RecentChanges.

What is needed to read rss feeds?

A news aggregator is a piece of software to enable the display of rss feeds. There are some which work as extensons to browsers, and others which work as part of email clients. See Wikipedia:News_aggregator for a list of available software.

Specifically if you are looking for UU RSS aggregator you can use UUpdates – (http://uupdates.net)

Can I list any site or Blog?

The site must support, and have enabled syndication. Feel free to contact me regarding a particular site to see if it can be listed. Or try adding it yourself. Also, I would like to limit sites to UU sites, as opposed to sites that “might be of interest” to UUs. But it depends how many total sites get loaded.

How do I add RSS to my site?

this primarily depends on the software you are using to generate the site. If you are using a software package that does not support the creation of a syndicated feed you might want to try a software package that will create the feed (as opposed to tring to manually edit a file). Phil Lund has recomended: http://softwaregarden.com/products/listgarden/ which he is using to syndicate his blog.

How did you decide on the categories?

The categories came about as a result of a few e-mail conversations, and from reviewing other similar sites that categorize RSS feeds for denominations. If you have any suggestions feel free to pass them along.