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BBC breaks new ground with RSS feeds

The BBC News has switched on what may be the most sophisticated collection of customizable RSS feeds offered by any mainstream news organization. Matt “Helped design BBC News” Jones posts the elated in-company memo on it:

“Yesterday afternoon [we] pulled the big red lever to make the CPS start publishing RSS versions of all the NewsOnline indexes on the website.

Examples:

Front Page
http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/ front_page/rss091.xml

Cambridgeshire
http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/england/ cambridgeshire/rss091.xml

Arts
http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/ entertainment/arts/rss091.xml

News 24
http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/ programmes/bbc_news_24/rss091.xml

…and for all of you going away to Glastonbury next weekend, Summer Music Festivals 2003

http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/in_depth/entertainment/
2003/summer_music_festivals/rss091.xml
in the UK Edition

And similarly in the World Edition,

Europe
http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition /europe/rss091.xml

And Business
http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/ business/rss091.xml

Etc.

The more ambitious of you out there should be able to work out the URL’s of any index you want.”

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