The main distinction between ponies and horses is height. A horse is usually considered to be an equine thatâs at least 14.2 hands (or about four feet ten inches) tall. A pony, on the other hand (pun totally intended!), is an equine less than 14.2 hands. This is not a black and white rule, though.
Updated June 13, 2016. Syndication is a term that is used in both print and broadcast media. It indicates content that is purchased for use by a local newspaper, tv or radio station. It is not produced by the media company's owner but through an outside source.
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and represents the standardized web feed syndication. That's quite a mouthful. What does that really mean? Well, you can sort of think of it like the New York Times crossword puzzle. The New York Times is the home of the puzzle, but it is also printed in newspapers across the country. This is called syndication. To facilitate this on the web, a standard is needed to pass information back and forth. That's where RSS comes in. It provides the standard for syndicating articles on the Internet. Recommended: A Review of Digg Reader as an RSS Aggregator. Most of us run across this syndication every time we browse the web. A site that is syndicated will usually advertise its RSS feed using the orange icon pictured above this article. Some sites will also use icons for common RSS feed aggregators like Yahoo, Google or Netvibes.