We have now added RSS feeds (in the XML/Atom format) to all UUCP blogs, not just to the Ministerial Search Commitee blog.

If you are not familiar with RSS, it is a way for you to subscribe to a blog (such as this one). The result is that you could be are instantly and actively notified ("push" technology) about any changes in the blog.

To subscribe, point an RSS-enabled web browser (such as the Opera browser) to a web page in a special XML format. The special XML page corresponding to this blog happens to have the address [http://palouseuu.org/blog/web/atom.xml].

Very often, you will see this standard icon offering you to subscribe to the given blog by clicking on it.

The UUCP Social Action Committee now has a blog of their own. The contact person is Peggy Jenkins (see contact information in the Church Directory).

A few photos from the November 5, 2005, Pledge Drive Dinner were posted to our Flickr photo gallery:

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/palouseuu/

The UUCP now has a photo gallery on Flickr.COM. Our gallery's address is http://www.flickr.com/photos/palouseuu/.

This is the free account, so we have two kinds of limits:

• Maximum 200 photos shown at any given time.
• Maxiumum 20 MB "upload bandwitdh" per month.

The bandwidth is not very serious: if each uploaded picture were first resized to approximately 100 KB, then we could upload up to 200 pictures a month.

The "pro" account, costing $24.95/year, imposes no limitations on either the total number of pictures, or on how frequently they are uploaded.

A blog is an abbreviation of web log. It is a way to create web pages not requiring practically any expertise in computer technology.

The most frequent use of blogs today is to express personal opinions, or share a personal diary. However, personal use is not the purpose of blogs on the UUCP website. Instead, we are creating UUCP blogs to allow committees and groups, rather than single individuals, to share their collective work with the larger congregation.

For more information about blogs see the Wikipedia.