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BBC to Provide Extensive RSS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lots-of-simple-syndication dept.

Georgie2032 writes "The BBC News Online's Editor states that beginning in the middle of May, the BBC will be 'completely liberating the availability of its content' using its Really Simple Syndication (RSS) tool. 'So in May we'll be happy for outside websites to dip in and take our headlines'"

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  1. Just imagine by katana · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they do this for press releases, Slashdot won't even need editors anymore!

    1. Re:Just imagine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Slashdot has editors?! All this new information, oh the headache!

  2. And it's doing a good job. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The BBC is an out of date tax on broadcast media that it morally wrong and uncompetitive. The BBC itself is an organization riddled with beaurocracy, massive egos, huge salaries, unhealthy festering cliques and class A drug habits paid for off the back of the British people.

    Yes, it's all those things, and yet it does a better job than all your free market organizations riddled with their bureaucracy, massive egos, huge salaries, unhealthy festering cliques and class A drug habits paid for off the back of their subscribers.

    You simply don't like the fact that our TV crap is better quality than your TV crap, doesn't irritate the hell out of people with adverts, and is free to RSS to the world. Grow up, and enjoy the competition resulting from a different market model. Oh and by the way, our tax is a hell of a lot less than you guys pay for TV.