As promised, here's some non technical definitions of RSS. More technical stuff later.

• RSS is technology that allows you to make your own online newspaper.
• RSS is a signal to search engines and subscribers that your site has updated.
• RSS is a technology that enables you to subscribe to website updates.
• RSS is the carrier for  blogging, podcasts, videoblogs and increasingly normal website content and content from knowledge worker and industrial processes.
  

Valerie Gregory of BCIT on fear of technology and I share my fear of cars (1.7 MB MP3 file, 3 minutes 44 seconds).

Robert Scales reflects on the diversity of the participants (1.9 MP3 file, 4 minutes and 4 seconds) and the positive feedback from day 1.

Matt Palmer on Day 1 (2.3 MB MP3 file, 4 minutes 58 seconds) and the use of blogs, podcasts and videoblogs to promote his film making.

Cherry Sham of The Glenbow Museum on Day 1 (2.6 MB MP3 file, 5 minutes and 38 seconds) and how blogs, and other Web 2.0 tools could be used by the museum and about how she'd like to do a Lost podcast.

UPDATE: Len's blog is now at the Len Chronicles.
A reflection on day 1 with Len Edgerly (2.1 MB MP3 file, 4 minutes, 32 seconds)

• Technology I for Blogs n Dogs
• all stuff mentioned here is tagged blogsndogstech on delicious so you can find it
  
  • http://del.icio.us/tags/blogsndogstech
• Conclusion
  
  • 1. Develop a personal web strategy
    
    • for becoming web literate, staying current and finding what you want and need and creating what you want and need without information overload
    • find online human filters and subscribe to them; get friendly with local "Web 2.0" geeks, meet people at meetups and conferences
  • 2. Learn the tools you need - some people call the current conversational tools and tools like them "Web 2.0" - just letting you know but it's just really the read/write web or the next version of the web
    
    • tools are crude but "good enough" learn now and reap the benefits
  • 3. Converse, participate and consume using the tools (telephone graphic)
• It's about conversation .It's about one or more of art, doing it for yourself or going all pro and smooth. It's about creating and consumption on your terms