RSS and blogging

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. Or Rich Site Summary. Or RDF
(Resource Description Framework) Site Summary. It all depends who you ask.

Really Simple Syndication is probably the best description of RSS in action.
RSS is a way for one site to allow publication of some of its content on other
sites – very much in the way some newspaper columnists have their articles
syndicated across national or international publications. RSS lets anybody with
a smattering of HTML skill syndicate the content on their site, content which
may be in the form of news feeds, event listings, headlines, discussion
summaries, newsletter articles and so on.

RSS was originally developed by Netscape programmers in the late 1990s, but
it's only in the past year that its popularity has begun to blossom, riding the
blogging wave.

'Blog' is short for weblog. If you've missed the phenomenon, blogs are the
self-published journals which have popped up all over the Web, mostly on
personal sites but also gaining prominence on very public sites. In the US
presidential race, for example, the early front-running Democrat candidate,
Howard Dean, grabbed attention and a lot of followers via his Blog For America .

RSS lets bloggers, amongst others, get their words out to a broader audience.