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By: Is RSS dead? Newspaper subscriber numbers now and 18 months ago compared » Malcolm Coles

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:33:57 +0000

[...] rashly suggested that newspapers should turn off their RSS feeds as no one was using them (I then recanted slightly). Fortunately this means I have the data for back then on the number of people using Google Reader [...]

By: Why RSS Versus Twitter Beats Federer Versus Roddick In Straight Sets « Jon Bernstein

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:56:52 +0000

[...] Last Friday he published his semi-retraction, I’m sorry I suggested newspapers turn off their RSS feeds… [...]

By: Newspapers and RSS: the key to success or a waste of resources? « Clicking and Screaming

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:19:41 +0000

[...] fending off a wave of negative and occasionally over-the-top comments, Malcolm published a climbdown. As it turns out, Malcolm and I aren’t so very far apart in our assessment of the situation [...]

By: Malcolm Coles: re-thinking newspapers and RSS feeds | DAILYMAIL

Malcolm Coles: re-thinking newspapers and RSS feeds | DAILYMAIL — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:39:57 +0000

[...] “OK, newspapers shouldn’t turn off RSS feeds… I was wrong,” writes Malcolm Coles. After a little reflection on comments received about his post ‘ Newspapers: Turn off your RSS feeds‘ [also pasted on the Online Journalism Blog and his own blog] he concludes that link-bait headlines are dangerous… His fuller explanation is at this link… [...]

By: Paul Bradshaw

Paul Bradshaw — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:28:20 +0000

I've often written things at night and regretted it! Hold on - what time is it..? Shit.

By: Malcolm Coles: re-thinking newspapers and RSS feeds | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:57:32 +0000

By: Chis

Chis — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:17:17 +0000

Not sure if this was mentioned in comments to your other posts on this subject. But I use Firefox live bookmarks a lot. My fav source of news is from the BBC so I bookmark the RSS feed for my footie team, the main football page, F1, sport , news and technology. I'd do the same for the newspapers if I actually read them in the first place.

BBC do a good job of explaining RSS http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3223484.stm

By: Malcolm Coles

Malcolm Coles — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:38:59 +0000

You maybe. The only newspaper RSS feed I subscribe to is the Guardian Tech one - and I 'mark all as read' once a month. I really should just delete it from the reader ...

By: minifig

minifig — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:28:10 +0000

I think this is an excellent post

You're absolutely right about newspapers doing more to educate about RSS. It's such a wonderfully powerful and I imagine the people who engage with the media through RSS (like you or me) are pretty high-value customers - bloggers, other journalists etc.

They're also almost certainly extremely good-looking, intelligent and spend much of their spare time writing criticisms of Heideggar and Wittgenstein...