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.xmlCambridgeshire
http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/england/ cambridgeshire/rss091.xmlArts
http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/ entertainment/arts/rss091.xmlNews 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 EditionAnd similarly in the World Edition,
Europe
http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition /europe/rss091.xmlAnd Business
http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/ business/rss091.xmlEtc.
The more ambitious of you out there should be able to work out the URL’s of any index you want.”