Felix Salmon submits: Last week, Research Recap featured a Forrester study entitled "The Fragmentation of Yesterday's Newspaper". A mention of RSS feeds piqued my interest, and Forrester was kind enough to send me a copy today. The conclusions of the report are, I think solid. Online, newspapers should be aggregators as well as publishers: they shouldn't restrict themselves to their own content. Similarly, newspapers shouldn't restrict their content to their own sites: they should be much more active when it comes to syndication. ( Dear John Thain makes a similar point today.) But I was less impressed by the way the report treated RSS. Complete Story » ...
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Felix Salmon submits: Last week, Research Recap featured a Forrester study entitled "The Fragmentation of Yesterday's Newspaper". A mention of RSS feeds piqued my interest, and Forrester was kind enough to send me a copy today. The conclusions of the report are, I think solid. Online, newspapers should be aggregators as well as publishers: they shouldn't restrict themselves to their own content. Similarly, newspapers shouldn't restrict their content to their own sites: they should be much more active when it comes to syndication. ( Dear John Thain makes a similar point today.) But I was less impressed by the way the report treated RSS. Complete Story » ...