How the updates page works
This question has been answered in so many places, but for the benefit of the new bloggers here, here are some pointers to the tech details behind the updates page.
It works the same way as weblogs.com. Like most things Radio-related, the copy of Radio running on your computer makes a connection to the server using XML-RPC. The interface is defined here.
Whenever you make a new post to your blog, after Radio has finished upstreaming (more detail) the web pages that have changed, it connects to the Salon server and fires off a 'ping' command. The server takes note of this and moves your blog up to the top of the 'recently changed' list.
To avoid overloading the server, only one ping will be accepted in any 5-minute period.
If you find that you don't seem to be appearing at the top of the 'recently changed' list, despite making several new posts, check your event log (click here to see your one) and make sure there is a line saying something like 'Notified weblogs.com and your community server that you have updated'. If this is there, it's probably just a temporary thing and you'll find that your update will make it through eventually.
Note that there are a lot of other blogs out there, so even if you go to weblogs.com or blogs.salon.com straight after posting something, you won't always appear right at the top!
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It works the same way as weblogs.com. Like most things Radio-related, the copy of Radio running on your computer makes a connection to the server using XML-RPC. The interface is defined here.
Whenever you make a new post to your blog, after Radio has finished upstreaming (more detail) the web pages that have changed, it connects to the Salon server and fires off a 'ping' command. The server takes note of this and moves your blog up to the top of the 'recently changed' list.
To avoid overloading the server, only one ping will be accepted in any 5-minute period.
If you find that you don't seem to be appearing at the top of the 'recently changed' list, despite making several new posts, check your event log (click here to see your one) and make sure there is a line saying something like 'Notified weblogs.com and your community server that you have updated'. If this is there, it's probably just a temporary thing and you'll find that your update will make it through eventually.
Note that there are a lot of other blogs out there, so even if you go to weblogs.com or blogs.salon.com straight after posting something, you won't always appear right at the top!