Jay Honeck wrote:

a) On a technical note, what's an "RSS feed"?

Its the main standard for syndicating weblogs to people's desktops
(actually, in addition to blogs proper, people use it a lot for regular news
feeds from Yahoo, Reuters, etc., as well as alerts from Amazon or eBay).
This is enormous stuff right now -- there are 15,000 new weblogs every day
according to Technorati, and bloggers have driven a lot of the press
coverage of the U.S. presidential campaign (on both sides).

b) On a philosophical note, why would you take your thoughts, knowledge and
opinions private?

On the contrary, I want to reach a potentially bigger, opt-in audience.
Think of it as a kind of Usenet where you subscribe to individual posters
rather than newsgroups. I think that a lot more people read weblogs than
Usenet (i.e. by at least an order of magnitude).


All the best,


David