Syndication is the direction web information management is headed in. Just by starting my aggregator I can check over a hundred websites, including those for the intranet at my library, the news section at my school, several organizations I am member of, and my friends sites, to see if any changes have been made and get the latest information from those places.

When you start investigating syndication, you soon get mired in the various formats. Comparing RSS 2.0 and ATOM – For the Rest of Us! discusses the differences between 2 of the most popular ones.