Re: [syndication] Sneak Preview: my.info

[Incze Lajos <incze@mail.matav.hu>]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 08:37:10AM -0600, Stephen Downes wrote:
> Per Kreipke wrote:
> 
> > Aaron,
> >
> > I'm going to agree with Leigh and try to use his terms (plus) below: authors
> > write the content, sources disseminate it, aggregators combine/gather
> > sources, consumers consume/display aggregated content, users read the
> > content.
> 
> No...
> 
> 'publishers' disseminate it (or, if you prefer, 'websites' disseminate it)
> 'sources' are the author's original information (not to be comfused
> with 'references', in which the author obtains information from other articles).
> 
There is a very clean and simple DTD that can be used at least
fo this kind of clarification of concepts. See it at xmlnews.org.
It has the advantage to be compliant to some other news standards.
iMade by Megginson, I think you know this name.           incze