Do you syndicate?
If you're a blogger, you may well allow your entries to be syndicated for news aggregator services. (If you use blogging software such as
MoveableType, syndication is easy.) News sites need to be syndicatable too, so that headline aggregators can come along and suck up their content. The technology is
Rich
Site
Summary (aka Really Simple Syndication or
RSS for short). If you don't know about it yet, it's about time you did. Read a few tips at the excellent
Lockergnome's RSS page (
http://rss.lockergnome.com/). If you are interested in what's available via RSS, look at
NewsIsFree. You will need an RSS reader, such as
AmphetaDesk (available from
http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/) to translate the feeds into headlines.
Posted by belinda at August 12, 2003 12:04 PM