For The Web 2.0 Newbies

This is web 2.0. It's push and pull world today. You don't have to visit all your favorite websites each day to find out what's new. Instead, those websites will "push" the updates to your RSS reader, which will "pull" the updates for you. It's like an email inbox. You only get notifications for updates when new content has been uploaded to your favorite websites.

The best explanation I've ever found for this concept is here at Common Craft. (If you're unfamiliar with blogs, go here.)



What's this have to do with our blog? Simple. We don't need to email each other all the time (unless we want to keep our conversation private). Instead, let's communicate via the blog and our comments to blog posts. Then we can subscribe (via RSS reader) to the blog, and we can keep our conversation public. Plus, we can edit each others' posts on the blog. (Let's agree to keep editing down to spelling and grammatical changes only).

So... fire up your RSS reader (built in to your web browser, or use Google's). Subscribe to the feed on this blog. Comment. Rinse. Lather. Repeat.

If you like, join Twitter and let's microblog there.