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RSS-What’s That? Pt.2-A FEED

» by Old School September 7th, 2007 at 1:15 am » Comments (0)

I like the definition of a feed given by good old Wikipedia. It is as follows:
A web feed is a data format used for serving users frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as [...]



RSS What’s That?-Part 1

» by Old School September 6th, 2007 at 1:14 am » Comments (0)

Some asked me today about RSS feeds so I wanted to share the answer I came up with today.
RSS is an acronym that stands for Really Simple Syndication and Rich Site Summary. It represents all feed formats. Whats a feed? A feed is just a summary of blog entries (or posts) that are displayed [...]



Great new information about blogging

» by Old School August 29th, 2007 at 2:04 am » Comments (0)

Some links to basic tutorials about bloggingread more | digg story



What is an Index Page

» by Old School August 20th, 2007 at 7:49 pm » Comments (0)

You will hear and see this term a lot. The index page is the home page of your blog. It is the page that contains the most recent entry at the  top of the page.
So from this day forward never ever be intimidated if someone asks you “What was the last post on your index [...]



Boomers Can “Fight with Thier Fisks”

» by Old School August 20th, 2007 at 7:42 pm » Comments (0)

There is a blogging term called fisk. It’s a strange term that is named after a British Journalist named Robert Fisk. Now hold on everyone to this Wikipedia.org definition you are going to just love it.
***Fisk’s reporting and commentary style has made him the object of criticism, to the extent that some bloggers have coined [...]



Blogging is more than a chance to rant

» by Old School August 15th, 2007 at 7:03 pm » Comments (0)

It is amazing how many Baby Boomers feel that blogging is a total self serving waste of time. Many have not looked twice at it because negative connections to chat rooms or political rants. Yet, even those have their place and readership with many people.
Note that when you blog you have entered into the BLOGOSPHERE. Now [...]



What Can You Blog About?

» by Old School August 15th, 2007 at 1:56 pm » Comments (0)

You can blog about anything! For many people their purpose in life is to blog.(smile) Seriously, people blog about life, politics, religion, entertainment, gossip, art, and the list goes on. For example,if you create a news site it will be content about the lasted news stories.
 
The magic word here is CONTENT. The content will consist [...]



What is a Blog?

» by Old School August 13th, 2007 at 2:11 pm » Comments (0)

We thought this first post should tell you what a blog means. We never knew until we asked. So here is a quick and simple definition. Wikipedia is a great online encyclopedia. Now we know some folks may not like some of the postings which are all done by volunteers. But we think they are [...]



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