What is RSS?

I'm glad you asked, because RSS, or "Really Simple Syndication", is helping me deliver content to you better, whether it's a story about my latest trip at The Road Scholars or my new musings on technology on the Sean Genovese Blog. Until recently, if you wanted to find out if there was anything new to read on one of my blogs, you had to either visit the site on the web and look, or sign up for The Road Scholars mailing list and wait for my email. Now you can bring new content that you want to read directly to you via RSS. This is great news if you

• Don't like to have your inbox flooded with email
• Change email addresses frequently
• Can't access certain sites or email clients at work
• Don't want to be bothered checking dozens of web sites for information you care about
• Love reading TRS updates as quickly as they are written

Check out this brief video for more information on how RSS works.

If you are a Road Scholars fan, here's how RSS can work for you. There are currently three blogs I publish:

• The Road Scholars
• Speed Bump Chronicles
• Sean Genovese Blog

There is actually a fourth one called TRS News. This is what gets published at the main Road Scholars homepage and what you see if you are subscribed to the TRS mailing list. Whenever I post something new to one of the blogs, I simulcast a snippet on TRS News.

Each of the four blogs also has it's own RSS feed, so by using an RSS reader, you can subscribe to all of the feeds, or only the ones that interest you (so if you like everything listed above, I suggest the TRS News feed since it is the most comprehensive).

Here are the RSS feed links to the four blogs mentioned above:

• TRS News
• The Road Scholars
• Speed Bump Chronicles
• Sean Genovese Blog

If you already use RSS, none of this is news to you and all I've done here is provide you with a one stop shop for all the TRS feeds you may be interested in. If you're not using RSS, I hope you'll check it out. It's not just for The Road Scholars, you can also subscribe to your favorite sports scores, weather reports, news headlines...anything that has a feed!

My Tivolution: Three Sheets (on FLN)

If you aren't a fan of Zane Lamprey, you should be. His show, Three Sheets, originally was produced and aired on Mojo, an all HD television network that is now defunct. After a hiatus that lasted way too long, Zane has resurfaced with Three Sheets on the Fine Living Network. The show follows Lamprey around the world exploring different drinking customs. As he says in the intro:

Every night, in every city around the world, it happens. People pour into local watering holes to well, drink. It's my mission...to traverse the globe getting to know these different people and their drinking customs; bellying up to the bar and with any luck, making some new friends.

Check out this video from CNN, by a less than enthusiastic reporter, to get a feel for Zane's flavor.

It's a good show.