In my work for book publishers, I often syndicate excerpts from new books. Every outing involves a stop at Internet e-zine guide, "Topica."

Topica <http://lists.topica.com/> is an excellent place to find Internet mailing lists devoted to any given subject. Successor to Liszt, one of the best mailing list finders ever. Through Topica, you should be able to find a few e-zines willing to run your article, no matter how obscure the topic is.

The article I am reviewing is titled “Syndicating Your Articles: Pros and Cons,” written by Christopher Heng.

If you wish to read this article, the URL is below:
http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/syndication.shtml

This article (and Web site!) is a great resource for understanding the benefits and drawbacks that come with syndicating your articles online. Christopher Heng briefly covers the “traditionally cited advantages” of syndicating: brand-name awareness, attracting visitors to your site, increasing your page rank on Google. The “downsides” to syndicating he mentions are: obsolescence, unauthorized modifications, revenue, mirroring problems, association with Spam.

Heng brushes on “who benefits most from syndicating articles,” before launching into a rather thorough analysis of how to “avoid the problem of obsolescence” (with JavaScript code). He offers advantages and disadvantages of this JavaScript method, before concluding with an overview of “should you syndicate your articles?”

I found this Web site and article helpful because it’s straightforward, concise, and offers a quality selection of other links and articles regarding online article syndicating and services available for the novice to the professional.

S. Chapital
Website: http://www.answers.com/topic/news-aggregator

Yes, I know this is not a trade site or even one to base any sound decisions upon but after reading the information offered about web syndication on Answers.com I felt as if I'd gained a better understanding of just what "syndication" in the cyber world means.
This site begins by defining in simple terms what it means to have syndicate an srticl online. It then offers the benefits syndicated sites offer to the consumer.
The Answers.com site does give a quick wash-over of this topic but after reading it I felt like I got the cliff notes version of a mildly complex subject and that satisfied me.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'd like to add that the article you found at Answers.com is mostly about RSS or Real Simple Syndication -- a technological way to syndicate news stories that underpins blogs. The article is a good introduction to RSS.

Thanks,
STEVE O'KEEFE