Inside Yahoo News: Aggregator brings RSS to the masses

sido
2005-04-02T22:40:48Z

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/050331glaser/

There's an article over at Online Journalism Review that talks about Yahoo news' use of RSS.

It gets interesting towards the end in the "Taking RSS to the masses" section

"If you look at how we've integrated RSS into Yahoo News, we're not actually using those three letters very much," Gatz said. "So you look at it, and it says what would you like to add to your political news, here are some political blogs. Would you like to add CNN or MSNBC onto your news page? The fact that it happens in XML or RSS isn't the important thing. Most of the users don't want to have to figure that out."