Note: this is not a call for bloggers. I'm not looking for someone to write for this blog. If you want to do that, apply here. This is a call for developers.

If you're reading our tech blogs, you probably know someone — or are someone — who works on web applications. We're expanding our Weblogs, Inc. tech team, looking for web developers and technical web designers for full-time positions.

The exact skills are less important than these traits: bright, energetic, blog savvy, great communication skills (email, IM and in person), organization and problem solving. I'm not looking to fill a specific role like "MySQL developer". I want to find two or three people who know how to keep this giant blogging platform flying along and contribute to our always-changing stream of web projects.

But just so we don't get people expecting to work on something else we don't use, here are some real skills we need:

• Apache, PHP and MySQL

• ASP/VBScript, Microsoft SQL

• experience with blogs, blogging, feeds, tagging services, CMSes, forums, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

• Windows Server, Linux OS, Mac OS

• regular expressions, JavaScript, AJAX

• FTP, remote control (terminal services, ssh) and file management

• experience administering DNS and email servers (Windows Merak Mail corporate mail server, qmail on Linux)

Does that sound like you or someone you know? Let me know.

Some of our team members work from home and some work from offices. We're looking for people in the NYC area, but we'll consider talented people from other locations.

RSS is pretty simple. In fact, RSS wears a big t-shirt that says, "Simple is my middle name." Publishers are adopting RSS all over the place and advertisers are trying to figure out how to reach this elusive and finicky audience of early adopters, but RSS is a pretty unfriendly medium for advertising compared to the regular Web or even spam (formerly known as "email").

Me? I love RSS. I couldn't keep up with the embarrassingly small percentage of WIN sites I read if I didn't have FeedDemon, but there are a few things I wish RSS and feed readers could do. Many solutions to RSS problems involve server-side scripting - like the HTTP Conditional GET, which spares Web servers some of the load of repeated requests for feeds that have not changed - but scripting can only do so much.

Clarification: one reader pointed out that Conditional GETs don't require scripting. That is correct, but basic Conditional GETs will still serve your entire 120K XML file even if only one item has been added. Combining Conditional GETs with a server-side script that returns only the new posts is the only way I'd ever want to do Conditional GETs so I consider this a "scripting" solution.

I guess it's only fair that I should announce the arrival of our RSS news feeds on The RSS Weblog. Well, they're here — three versions of our syndicatable headlines on every one of our blogs.

I'm pretty sure that the primary reason Jason launched The RSS Weblog was to shame me into getting the feeds going. Having a Weblog about RSS that didn't have XML news feeds was a lot like making a black and white television show about the wonders of color television.