Network Analyst who plays around with many things open source when he is not feeding his MMORPG addiction.
The Internet needed another source of rants and uninvited uninformed opinions.
How Blogs Work in 7 Easy Pieces is a short write-up on the technology behind "blogs" and how people use the technology. I personally don't ping an aggregation server upon update but I do use RSS on my own blog.
How To Speed-Read the Net is one of the few good introduction articles on RSS readers. I use an RSS reader several times a day at work and at home. I frankly can't imagine being without an RSS reader and it is usually the first thing I install after the operating system during a reinstall of one of my desktop systems.