RSS lives up to its name -- Really Simple Syndication. It is really simple. As a webmaster, one can syndicate any kind of list with RSS: a list of posts on a certain topic, a list of contacts, products, songs, TV shows... whatever. As a website consumer, one can be notified every time one's list of interest updates. It's great.

In improving the experience (and thus promoting the usership) of a website or blog, RSS (or any other xml syndication format, really) is vital because it does two things: It both pushes and pulls.

Nerd Girls rule!

Tubby Nerd.com isn't as funny as it could be, but it's worth a visit.

Nerd Family is funny and very nerdy! It is NOT funny!!! They think Joe Biden is an idiot. Do NOT VISIT THAT SITE!!! (Though it is kind of funny, depending on how you look at it.) That site is false advertising at its finest: Those people aren't even nerds.

Well, that should keep you busy for a while. I'm off to do geeky things!

Things just feel better since Obama took the oath. He's such a nerd, even though he did play basketball.

It's nice to have a president who knows how to speak our language and -- most importantly -- who cares about us. That was the feeling I always had about Bush: He just didn't care about common people. How could he? As a child of privilege who had everything handed to him on a silver platter, it would be impossible for him to understand what it's like to have to work for what you get.

I just love being a nerd. "Embrace your inner dork, and be free!" That is my credo.

If anybody would know this, it would be me because I'm about the dorkiest dude on the planet and also the closest to God (Only a total dork would ever claim to be closest to God, but I am close to God. We talk almost every day. Sometimes I call Him. Sometimes He calls me. Whatever. It is what it is: God's in my Fave Five and on my friends list and all that), especially the Little Baby Jesus God that we all love to love at this time of year.

There is no point in ever being bored. If you are bored, you are probably boring. Below are

ten easy cures for boredom:

1. Make inane blog posts. Thanks to the wonders of the Google, someone will read it! Some weirdo will actually search for "spaghetti code poetry" and find this very post because it may well be the only page on the entire internet that has that particular set of words in that order. Tell me that's not cool!
Go full-nerd and read on...

Money is boring. Why would anyone want to blog or read about the moo-lah? It's dull.

Easy for me to say. I could fill my swimming pool with hundred dollar bills and hire a dozen dancing girls to do belly flops into it if I wanted. Been there. Done that. It would be far more interesting to pick apples or something. Being a rich, famous blogger can be excruciatingly numbing sometimes.

(Disclaimer: There is no such thing as

easy money

.
Pursuit of "easy money" is likely to lead to ruin.)

Let's call it relatively easy money, defined as money that doesn't involve doing too much that you don't want to do (You'll always have to do some things you don't want to), money that can be made from the safety and comfort of your own home or some other enjoyable place, money that can be made by dealing with people of your choosing, money that can allow you to tell the assholes in your life to go take a flying effing leap.

Getting thousands of people to visit a website is easy, but attracting several dozen people who want what you offer is more difficult. If the right people don't find you, you're just burning up the server's CPU for no good reason.

Quality trumps quantity when it comes to SEO.