The International Center for Media and Public Agenda released results of a study conducted on the usage and execution of RSS on top news sites.

Summary of findings:

• Biggest Problems: 1. RSS feeds provided by many news sites often don’t publish stories that are not staff-written or produced thereby removing the 24/7 coverage you come to expect from the website version. As important, users don’t always know what exactly is being omitted in the RSS feed. 2. Full feeds not always provided.
• Best Users of RSS: The Los Angeles Times, ABC News, Christian Science Monitor, BBC World Service and Fox News.
• Solution: Regular news consumers may get a more accurate version of Top Stories from Google News [RSS feed / Google News ZapTask]

For other opinions on the study, see Dave Winer, the FP Passport and Libraryola

Coincidently, Robert Scoble also sparked off an interesting discussion on RSS Mistakes a few days ago.

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Happy Zapping, Sameer

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