Notes about our New Orleans blog:

* The RSS Feed for the main blog is here. Subscribe to this to get updates on the main posts.

* The RSS Feed for the "On the wire" section is here. Think of this like a Google Alerts for the keywords "New Orleans" and "rebuilding" ... except, unlike with Google Alerts this feed is being filtered through editorially experienced humans.

* Also, as always, if you want to keep abreast on all the New Orleans news happening worldwide, you can't beat periodic visits to Buzztracker.

For everyone wondering what the hell an RSS feed is, it's a way to "subscribe" to some stream of content — in this case, blog entries. If you have an RSS-aware web browser (Safari, Firefox, etc.) or dedicated reader software (NetNewsWire for example) or subscribe to some online blog aggregator (Bloglines for example), you can collect the RSS feeds of all the blogs you regularly browse in one space. Then, instead of having to go to the sites directly to check for updates, you check your RSS reader and it shows you all the new content. This saves a lot of time if you follow a lot of sites. It may sound a bit complicated, but it's a very small input_energy:time_saved ratio in the long run. I will now remove my dork helmet.