I believe 2004 is the year of syndicated content...have any of you jumped on the bandwagon yet?

If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's a piece of software like this:

http://www.wildgrape.net

or this:

http://www.newsgator.com/

No, I havent but it seems interesting. I wonder if they will soon begin to replace newspapers?

JDINTERACTIVE said:

Well, inasmuch as it's an extension of the web, yeah...

But the web is so large, and you can't check 1,000 sites, blogs, and whatnot a day to see if something new is posted. That's where the news aggregator comes in...it scrapes up the content you want from all those sites and puts them in order for you on your desktop, which gives you the ability to manage that much more information.

I have yet to see a discussion board (like the org) broadcasting to the aggregators...but I figure it will happen.

Is that the same concept as news.google.com? What's the difference between them? What are the advantages/disadvantages?

AOL does just about that as does MSNBC or the like. You can go in and set up what you want to come your way and it does from then on. I do like the concept. That one seems more global.

Good stuff!

sabaisabai said:

Instead of searching for news, you "subscribe" to a site's news feed, and your newsreader tells when something new is posted, sometiems it gives you the entire article, without you having to actually visit the sites you subscribe to.

Take the org's news, for example. Your news reader would show the articles instead of you having to hit the org home page. Or something.

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

More global, yeah. Not just AOL's content, but everything on the web, including people's blogs, Amazon's newest books, anything at all really!

I'm going to get The Skelecosm to where it will ping the news-readers when a new card comes out!