RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication," and it's all the rage. The idea is pretty simple. Output some XML to the Web that content aggregators and other sites can consume and display. If you have a normal routine of sites you visit with frequent content updates (news, blogs, whatever), and each site has an RSS feed, you can at a glance see what's new at all of these sites with an aggregator.
I won't go into detail about how to use these feeds, but there's a great little piece over at LockerGnome that tells you all about it. You'll also find links to aggregators, and if you find one you like, you'll find yourself subscribing to feeds all over the place.
The benefit to you is that you might just attract visits to your site from people who might not otherwise go there because they can see what's new at many sites without having to wade through all of their bookmarks. And hey, if you're putting out some kind of list of headlines on your site, you probably already have the data access code written. Now you just need to present it as XML.
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