philipchevron wrote::shock:
:)
For those of you unfamiliar with the technology, here's a brief description of what's happening:
<ol><li>All the articles/posts to the fora are placed into a database.<li>The data in the database is presented (currently) in one of two ways: via the web page (what you're looking at right now) and via syndication.<ol><li>The syndicated presentation contains the basic information about each post:
Who posted it
When it got posted
What forum it's posted in
What the subject is
What the article itself is<li>This information is in a commonly understood format (Really Simple Syndication, or RSS) that "news aggregators" can consume and re-purpose to fit their own needs</ol><li>kufen's XBox is running an aggregator that is consuming our RSS feed and displaying it on his television. This proves that kufen is a bigger geek than any of the rest of us (though to be fair I also have an aggregator running that consumes this feed along with several others at
http://www.dzm.com/tmp/portal.html ).</ol>Huh. This probably didn't help to make anything more clear.
“I know all those people that were in the film [...] But that’s when they were young and strong and full of life, you know?”