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Depending on what time you're visiting LAist today, things might be a little screwy. We're going through some changes by upgrading our blogging software and doing some graphic redesigning. Our tech team, led by the best man to do the job, Neil Epstein, are working hard to get us through this as fast and smoothly as possible. Housekeeping: This is a good time to remind that you can read us via RSS (subscribe at http://laist.com/index.rdf) and follow us on Twitter @LAist. If you're going "what the hell are those," then this RSS and this Twitter video should help (plus, they're fun to watch!).

A report released this week said that 70% of technology sector companies are not using RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, to communicate with website visitors. But if you, like said tech companies, are not using RSS, it's likely you a) don't really understand RSS or b) haven't taken a leap of faith into the wonderful world of RSS.

The geniuses at Common Craft created this video explaining Twitter in plain English. We only wish that governments would hire them to explain how parking ticket revenues worked and how to best follow a city council motion from creation to approved city ordinance.

There are thousands of people that read this blog via their subscription to LAist's RSS (Really Simple Syndication). But sometimes when people hear the word "RSS," their faces go blank.

This is a purposefully backdated post for a National Arts Marketing Project (NAMP) workshop called "The New Frontier Part Two: Blogging, Social Networking and YouTube!" organized by the LA Stage Alliance with guest speakers D. Jean Hester and LAist Editor, Zach Behrens. The following are notes and reference links for workshop participants.

We know that sometimes the volume of posts at LAist can be a bit much to keep up with. For that reason, the geniuses at Gothamist developed our LAist Favorites page, which shows you the top ranked stories over the last day, week, month, or year. They've recently added an "all time" option-- did you know that there has only been one story that got more than 100 comments in the history of LAist?...