Bling – not too long ago you might have resisted using this word, or wearing studded belly rings. (“It’s just not me”). Likewise, you avoided blogs, or learning tech things (“It’s just not me”). Then you noticed bling and blogs are still going strong. Why?

Times, they are a’ changing.

Now, you not only really NEED a blog, you need to BLING it out, (yo!) WHY? Blogs allow you to quickly communicate with your audience and demonstrate your expertise.

Here is some common BLOG terminology:

RSS - a/k/a, Really Simple Syndication, a/k/a blogging. You know, that thing where you can publish directly to your friends, clients, and client’s friends.

Feeds – Your content. Call it your channel, your news feed, your xml feed, or your web feed. But whatever you call it, make sure it’s interesting or useful.

Aggregators - Your news reader. How you “read the feed”. Come in two flavors: web-based or desktop. I prefer Google’s free web-based version.

PING – Your content, in a small tidy package, sent from your computer to others. That’s all you really need to know. But for extra points you can impress people by knowing this stands for “Packet Internet Grouper”.

Blogroll - Your posse of friends’ blogs listed on your site. Manage these using a link management system like www.blogrolling.com

Trackback - A ping that says, “Hey, someone at this blog is talking about you!”. Wouldn’t that be great for real life, too?

Confused? Don’t worry. Pretty soon your blog will be bitchin. Here’s a brief video to review: