To syndicate, in Spanish

Reading the blog of Fernando Flores - Abriendo Juegos, Abriendo Mundos I discovered that they titled the xml feed Sindicalizar.

That made me wonder, so I looked it up in the RAE dictionary, and it turns out sindicalizar is not in the dictionary!!!

What to do with this neologism? Especially since sindicalizar (to unionize) has other connotations in Spanish (or Castilian?).

It looks ugly on Mr. Flores’s site.
So I set out on an investigation.…

The word sindicar does exist in our language, but it has the following meanings:

1. tr. to accuse (ǁ to denounce).
2. tr. To mark with a note, blemish or suspicion.
3. tr. To subject a sum of money or a certain class of securities or goods to special commitments in order to trade or sell them.
4. tr. To bind together several people of the same profession, or with common interests, to form a union.
5. prnl. To join a union.

(Source: RAE).

The Webster dictionary led me to the following definition for Syndicate:

Function: verb Inflected Form(s): -cat·ed; -cat·ing transitive senses 1 : to subject to or manage as a syndicate 2 a : to sell (as a cartoon) to a syndicate or for publication in many newspapers or periodicals at once b : to sell (as a series of television programs) directly to local stations

Source: http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=syndication&x=10&y=11.

From there I jumped in turn to Britanica.com, where I found other, shadier meanings :)

syndicate

in the United States, an association of racketeers in control of organized crime (q.v.).

(source: http://www.britannica.com/search?query=syndicate&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT)

newspaper syndicate

also called Press Syndicate, or Feature Syndicate, agency that sells to newspapers and other media special writing and artwork, often written by a noted journalist or eminent authority or drawn by a well-known cartoonist, that cannot be classified as spot coverage of the news. Its fundamental service is to spread the cost of expensive features among as many newspapers (subscribers) as possible. Press syndicates...

(source: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9055610?query=syndicate&ct=)

But everything becomes clearer with this lovely WikiPedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicate

It turns out the word in question has its origin in the Greek syndikos, which is something like the person in charge of a matter, an ombusdam.

The word Syndication, on the other hand, is according to wikipedia a method for making content available to a wide variety of outlets (points of sale or redistribution) simultaneously.

The great examples of this means of distribution are the cartoonists, such as those distributed by United Feature Syndicate, Inc., who "syndicate" Snoopy and Dilbert, among others.

This investigation leads me to think that the proper thing would be to use the phrase Sindicación Web for the act of publishing part or all of a website’s content to be used by other sites. It reads better, and it comes close to the concept of Web Syndication defined in Wikipedia.

Finally, you can do what I do on my blog: just put up the little orange badge with the 3 letters XML, and that’s it, a blogger knows what it is about.