RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication and it is a way of letting your readers know when you update your site with new content. Your readers can subscribe to your RSS feed, set up an account with a feed reader (e.g., Google Reader), and then, when you update your site, the feed reader shows that content in your readers' feed readers. This video explains RSS in the simplest way I've seen:

Yesterday, Apple unveiled its new iPad, (stay tuned, Virginia will fill you in on that soon), and discussed the future of portability. It was suggested that the event would also lay to rest--one way or another--the rumors that Apple is ending its exclusive deal with AT&T. Unfortunately, those rumors were neither confirmed nor denied and no one knows for sure just what's going to happen.

Linking, whether you're linking to another site or your site is being linked to, is an important part of SEO, (search engine optimization.) How a site treats links is important because it can determine how search engines treat those links as well. Specifically, I'm talking about whether a site uses NoFollow tagging within its links.

When I talk to beginning bloggers, I'm asked all sorts of questions. One I received this week was what is the difference between tags and categories? The obvious way to answer this is to define both, of course, but beyond that, I want to explain why you need both, how to name them, and how to display them.

If you're blogging and you don't know even a little bit of HTML, you're doing yourself a disservice. HTML (which stands for HyperText Markup Language) tells a web browser how to diplay text elements on your web page. Learning and using HTML is fairly intuitive; I think you'll find it very easy to learn. Knowing how to use HTML on your own web site or blog allows you to enhance your own posts and troubleshoot small issues that arise (like when your posts don't appear quite the way you intended).