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title: 'Ask from Daniel Local: What is web Syndication?'
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- Football stadium as central hub sending game footage to multiple devices illustrates
  syndication.
- Single managed website pushes content out to many network sites for standardization.
- Newspapers and magazines forward stories to sister locations ahead of the speaker's
  arrival.
- 2005 cycling trip across America provided real example of stories appearing at next
  stops.
- Hub controls core menu and pricing while local managers can customize with stickers
  or boards.
summary: The speaker explains web syndication by comparing it to a football game broadcast
  from a central stadium hub to many viewers on TVs and phones. Content originates
  from one managed site and distributes across a network of 100 or 10,000 sites, much
  like newspapers pushing stories ahead to upcoming cities during the speaker's 2005
  cross-America cycling trip. Hub sets standards while local nodes can add customizations
  like stickers or employee recognitions.
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# Question from Daniel Local

What is web Syndication?

## Your answer

OK, let me. Describe this in simple terms. Pick up a football game. There is a one. Stadium that the game occurs, that would be the hub and those cameras send it out through the network so that you see the play. On your television set, or on your phone or anywhere you're at that syndication. Web syndication is very similar. It's just that there's a single website that's managed by the owner. If it's a small enterprise. Or by corporate or someone responsible at the hub like the IT department and content that is added to that core distributes across the entire network, whether it's 100 or 10,000 websites. This is also very similar in magazines and newspapers, where. For example, when I cycled across America in 2005. I started finding my story. On the newsstand. At the city that I was coming to next. And that's because the previous locations that I had stopped and talked had pushed that story forward to other. Sister. News. Production places, I don't know what they're called, but. That's basically what syndication is. Someone at corporate decides what needs to be shown on the menu and the pricing and then it gets pushed out to everyone. And therefore there's standardization across the network, but the local manager can always walk up and put a sticker on it and make a special price or feature someone else's, uh, attaboy recognition. On the employee board, for example. So there's both. From the hub out and local posting on the node.