It aggregates content from publications like Zagat (restaurant reviews), Flavorpill (cultural events guide) and Arcadia Publishing (historic sites).

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As web content has expanded, computers have drawn on other bilingual sources, including the European Parliament and news sites publishing in multiple languages.

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This year, I was able to turn years of blogging at my food blog, Food for My Family, and freelancing for other sites into publishing my first book, Desserts in Jars: 50 Sweet Treats that Shine.

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Paul Gillin, a social media consultant, said such losses are to be expected for an industry that has failed to adapt to the influx of online publishing tools and social networking sites.

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The WikiLeaks spinoff OpenLeaks, for instance, despite its mysterious inability to launch over the last year and a half, suggests a clever model for future leaking sites: It plans to split publishing from the more technical task of ensuring anonymous submissions, and to simply pass on any leaks it receives to reporters at whatever media outlet the source chooses.

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Maureen O'Gara remains banned from publishing articles on Sys-Con's 16 sites.

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By the time he was 14, he had co-written the specification for RSS -- originally Rich Site Summary, now Really Simple Syndication -- a Web-publishing technology for delivering syndicated content from frequently updated sites, such as blogs or news websites.

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To add to their woes, it is reckoned that around 2m Turks now use a growing number of independent (and free) Internet news sites, which have so far managed to avoid the grip of Turkey's harsh broadcasting and publishing laws.

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