Re: [syndication] Re: Aggregating and displaying feeds

[Julian Bond <julian@netmarketseurope.com>]

In article <A5AB59E902D2D411BAF2009027B11E4CC2EB74@fsjubj05.ssg.gunter.a
f.mil>, dave.cantrell@gunter.af.mil writes
>>There is of course a third major use. The commercial news site where a
>>story or feature has an author and probably a sub-editor (and perhaps a
>>whole hierarchy of researchers, editors and bureaucrats ;-( ).
>
>Yeah, I had thought of this too, but figured that if you needed something
>this complex you should look into something like xmlNews or other similar
>formats. These are for entire story syndication, but I think they are a
>little too complex for anything other than hard-core wire feeds (like AP)
>and a bit excessive for basic headline syndication.

That's not quite what I meant. There are numerous commercial sites that
are syndicated with RSS either directly or via scrapers such as
NewsIsFree or Moreover. I use the feeds in exactly the same way. But
"Author" is sometimes a little more complicated with these. 

I'm not suggesting that we get into full syndication of their stories
but rather that they are a third type of headline source along with
Weblogs and "Slash" sites. Jeff Barr called RSS for these people as
something like banner advertising as a source of hits.

But even with this, I'm sure we've all got favourite journalists that we
look for on particular sites.

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