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.
  

• 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

Roland Tanglao, Eric Rice and Will Pate took the lead with the first session on technology.

Here's some of the key points of blogging technology presented in this first intro workshop.

• tagging and tags
• RSS
• aggregator
• flickr
• Bloglines