RSS feeds from the BBC news site

I was thinking the other day that the volume of news items on the BBC news site had reduced since they redesigned it - it seems that there are headlines that linger for two or three days in a way that never used to happen. I’m not sure if this is actually the case or whether it’s just a side effect of the redesign, but it was starting to make me spend more time on other news sites such as the Guardian.

Then through the wonder that is RSS syndication, I come across a post from Adrian Holovaty announcing the BBC’s RSS feeds for the news site. I think this is a big deal - not just because it’s damn useful from my point of view, but also because the BBC is about as prestigious a news organisation as it’s possible to get. If they are providing RSS feeds, then it’s only a matter of time before it goes completely mainstream. And that is going to have an interesting effect on my web browsing habits - I’m sure I spend less time in a browser and more in Outlook thanks to Newsgator, and this is only going to accelerate the trend.

Now if the Guardian would take the same approach, that would be my mainstream news sources pretty much taken care of…

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