RSS may sound like a distress signal along the lines of SOS, but its real purpose is to make accessing Web information simple. An abbreviation for Really Simple Syndication, it allows you to get all the updated headlines and podcasts in one place, without having to sift through individual Web sites. You can put all your feeds together in an RSS reader, which will become your all-in-one destination for news and information. Advice for Getting More from RSS

WordPress Policing Blogs
This is an interesting article, with a moral to boot. Don’t let someone else host your business blog. Ever. According to the article, WordPress sent out a letter to their customers warning that any sponsored or paid blog entries are grounds for immediately deletion of their blog and a permanent ban from using the service in the future. Complete Article

NewsGator and SalesForce Provide Remote Access
Users of the Salesforce.com customer resource management platform will soon get a new feature that lets them access their customer data on the road. RSS company NewsGator has announced that it will be providing users of the Salesforce.com customer management system with the ability to aggregate their CRM data via RSS. The RSS aggregation is provided through NewsGator s Enterprise RSS Solutions. NewsGator and SalesForce

Can and Should Schools Punish Students for Offensive Blog Posts Outside of School?
A teen who used vulgar slang in an Internet blog to complain about school administrators should not have been punished by the school, her lawyer told a federal appeals court. But a lawyer for the Burlington, Conn., school told the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday that administrators should be allowed to act if such comments are made on the Web. Avery Doninger, 17, claims officials at Lewis S. Mills High School violated her free speech rights when they barred her from serving on the student council because of what she wrote from her home computer. complete article