In the world of internet, RSS means Really Simple Syndication. Before you glaze over, all that means is one anonymous click gets you instant notification of updates on your favorite blogs - like The Pisstakers.

What RSS means for visitors to sites

For the average visitor, RSS means if you want an easy way to read everything new written by your favorite writers, it is a good idea to sign up to our RSS feed or any other blogger's feed.

For the info addict RSS means instant hit.

I read of one guy who has 750 feeds that he scans every day... he has a huge furrowed forehead and lots of conversational material for when he leaves his basement.

What RSS means to blog owners

For a blog or website owner, RSS can be crap because our fans may never again see the fantastic theme we spent months and millions designing.

Also every Feed reader seems to have a slightly different way of presenting the information, so our feed may look good in some cases, totally unappealing in others. Oh well! btw, Newsgator or NetNewsWire are pretty damn good feed readers.

Don't rely on RSS for all your news

RSS is basically essential in today's saturated blog world, but there is stuff that RSS readers miss. Like this

And some clever sites don't let you see all their articles via an RSS feed. Or at least, not without paying them some money or supporting them in some practical way. Members of Daring Fireball for instance, see things we don't!

RSS has become another bragging right.

RSS widgets can be encouraging or misleading.

Hey, dude, I have like 346 Feedburner subscribers, and you only have like 7. You're a loser.

Well, my man, I actually have 1000 subscribers to the xml non-Feedburner RSS feed on my site and 7 subscribers to Feedburner. Sounds like Feedburner is the loser round here, marn.

I am not into bragging rights, but I would still like to be able to compile all the subscribers to The Pisstakers and put that number in a widget, but I don't know how. If anyone does, let me know. Thanks.

And if you want to subscribe via the feedburner widget or your news reader, or via Firefox or Safari or IE, please, be our guest - but do call by now and again to the real site.

RSS post inspiration

RSS is a taxing issue Thanks to money making Ja Kel Daily dot com for prompting this post with his own kick up the pants post, advising bloggers like me how to make the best of RSS.

While I am at it, Ja Kel Daily Dot Com eventually wants to make money and is offering to link to blogs reviewing his blog. Check it out, he is one to watch. Hell, he needs to make money to put gas in that car of his.