I've wasted an afternoon trying to suss out this syndic8 stuff and I'm out of patience. I found the help files and established that I need the longtitude and latitude of my home city. Okay, I found those at the link supplied. I don't know why it should be necessary, but okay. Then I had to get listed on the ODP Project. Impossible. It doesn't have the categories I need and refuses to let me submit a website until I've found a suitable sub-category. It'll let me be an editor, but I don't have the time. I'm too busy running my websites and working. Also the ODP wants to grab the copyright of anything you add to it. I don't like the sound of that. Finally I had to locate myself on some hopeless map of the world that wouldn't do anything I wanted it to. What rubbish!
Back to my original question: Why does it have to be so complicated? What I was looking for was something like a free webcounter: download a few lines of HTML that link my website to the providing website, enable it to click up a visit and put a small graphic on my homepage. In this case it would need to read and syndicate my headline. If it can be made that simple, syndic8 will be a runaway success. I've started an arts news blog and it's just the sort of site that needs syndication, so that anyone interested in the arts can find the headline and pay a quick visit to read a short news item. ODP hasn't even got an Arts News category, and the BBC has recently dropped its own Arts News Index. So there is an obvious need for arts news blogs. I've found one good one, but it could stand some competition. If there is a valid reason for all the apparently unnecessary complications, I would be interested to read it. If you're getting "too much mail" then send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (this will tell it to stop sending you mail) To change your membership use THIS WEB PAGE: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/join (here you can set your mail to digest, no mail or LEAVE the list) To find more info about Syndicated XML newsfeeds visit http://www.syndic8.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
