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*Syndication* of a particular web site, such as //beconfused, is the process of making a portion of content in the web site available to news aggregators. Such content is to be interpreted by news aggregators.

//beconfused delivers feeds in RSS 2.0, RSS 0.92 and Atom 0.3 formats.

To syndicate //beconfused posts, you need tools called news aggregators. They can be installed in your system. online versions are also available. It is a little like email systems, you can have an email client such as Outlook installed in your system to download your email, or you can just use things like Gmail or Hotmail to views your emails online.

*Free desktop news aggregators:*

* Rss Bandit (Windows) - Requires .NET Framework 1.1. Personally, I use this.
* SharpReader (Windows) - Requires .NET Framework 1.1.
* NetNewsWire Lite (Macintosh) - Requires Mac OS X 10.2.8 (Jaguar) or greater.
* BlogBridge (Cross-platform) - Requires Java.
* AmphetaDesk (Cross-platform)

.NET Framework check
$user_agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
$IsMsie= eregi("MSIE",$user_agent);
$IsDotNet1_1= eregi(".NET CLR 1.1",$user_agent);
$IsDotNet1_0= eregi(".NET CLR 1.0",$user_agent);
$IsDotNet2= eregi(".NET CLR 2",$user_agent);
$IsDotNetx= eregi(".NET CLR",$user_agent);

if ($IsMsie) {
if ($IsDotNet1_1) {
$output = "You have .NET Framework 1.1 installed.";
} elseif ($IsDotNet2) {
$output = "WOW! You actually have .NET Framework 2.0 installed, you are fast, aren’t you.”;
} elseif ($IsDotNet1_0) {
$output = “You have .NET Framework 1.0 installed. You can download the latest version - .NET Framework 1.1.”;
} elseif ($IsDotNetx) {
$output = “You have .NET Framework installed but //beconfused can’t figure out which it is. You can download the latest version - .NET Framework 1.1.”;
} else {
$output = “You do not have .NET Framework instead. You can download the latest version - .NET Framework 1.1.”;
}
echo “This test only correct if you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows. $output Your user agent is ‘$user_agent’.”;
} else {
echo “Sorry, this test requires Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows. I am not discriminating people, only Internet Explorer reports .NET stuff.”;
};
?>

*Free online news aggregators:*

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* Add //beconfused to My Yahoo
* Add //beconfused to My MSN

Additionally, there is the comments feed using RSS.