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Do you syndicate your blogs? I do!
You may be familiar with the term syndication from the world of newspapers. When a column or cartoon is syndicated, it appears in many news outlets rather than one. Syndication does have an application when it comes to blogs. The XML markup formats RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and Atom are, in fact, used to create feeds of a blog’s contents.
The feed can then be sent to software called a feed reader, which enables someone to read new blog postings as they appear without having to manually connect to the blog over and over. Someone who uses a feed reader to pick up the syndicated version of a blog is said to have subscribed to that blog.