Headline feeds satisfy web user's appetites

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The latest tool for online publishers is the Short for Rich Site Summary
(RSS ), which allows websites and individual users to subscribe to
headline feeds from news sites, with links to the complete stories. The
feeds can be read on special software called news aggregators or on
websites such as Bloglines.com. RSS is getting a boost from the
popularity -even on newspaper sites- of blogging, or web logging. Many
bloggers, who write online journals that typically link to other
websites, use RSS because it is an easy way to aggregate headlines from
a large number of sources. One of the newest RSS offerings is from The
Telegraph in New Hampshire, US, where nh.com Editor Ernesto Burden's
team built a feed for the latest presidential primary news. The
Christian Science Monitor offers the entire paper in this format and
also lets users subscribe to specific sections such as world coverage or
arts, said its partnership development specialists Joel Abrams. While
the site has no way of tracking individual RSS users, it serves over a
million RSS files per month. "As with other Net technologies, there
isn't yet an obvious business model here. I think it's better to have
people read your content than not," Mr Abrams said.


Source:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1981142