One day I’ll get around to writing basic “how-to” posts. Until then, I’ll direct you to others writing noteworthy posts and articles.

CT Biz Blogs is writing a series on Really Simply Syndication (RSS), that mysterious technical feature that’s difficult to explain. I may not be able to explain it clearly, but like obscenity, I know it when I see it.

Click over to the RSS series.

Fellow blog consultant Rich Brooks links to an article titled Your 7-Step RSS Marketing Plan.

Rich writes:

RSS allows you to syndicate your content very easily; it’s most commonly used in blogging and podcasting as an RSS feed is automatically created by most blogging and podcasting platforms. However, RSS can be created for your Web site as well, and is fast becoming an important communication channel for businesses.

Really Simple Syndication, a simple concept, is not simple to explain. This may help: Look at this code. It’s TLA’s RSS feed. Readers can copy and paste the link into the RSS aggregator of their choice (which converts the code to HTML) and read the latest posts. Or if they’re already signed up with an aggregator service, they can click on one of the buttons in the “RSS Feeds” section of the sidebar.