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Syndication is not publication

28th November 2002

Mark Pilgrim pretty much single handedly killed the discussion thread on syndicating weblog content with XHTML started a few days ago by Anil Dash. Stuart’s reply to Mark’s post is definitely worth a read though.

Posted 28th November 2002 at 11:24 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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