Real Simple Syndication (RSS) Explained

In my previous post, Blogging Writing Tips, I mentioned that you should make it easy to give RSS feed to anyone coming to your blog to post onto their site.

A lot of people TALK about RSS, but not many of them ever explain it.  I suspect it is because nobody ever really explained it to them.

First, let's explain what the word syndication means.  The word syndicate has several meanings, but from our perspective, it simply means that...