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Monday, August 28, 2006

WhatTheyThink does RSS

feed-icon-64x64.png Randy Davidson of WhatTheyThink sent out a blast email this afternoon announcing easier ways to access WhatTheyThink content, including their new RSS feeds:

WhatTheyThink.com now offers free RSS feeds. RSS is an XML-based format for easily sharing news headlines and summaries for use in your favorite news readers. The feeds include links back to the site for the full article, and are updated automatically.

More info at http://members.whattheythink.com/home/rss.cfm

Looks like the hack I pointed to earlier this year is no longer needed.

Update

In the comments below, Mike points out that WhatTheyThink plagiarized the content on their new RSS page.

If you read both the Fox News' RSS page and the WhatTheyThink's RSS page you will notice they are almost exactly the same.

I'm both surprised and saddened that WhatTheyThink would plagiarize the content of another site.

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3 Comments

  1. This is funny WhatTheyThink.com RSS Terms page looks like they did a bad find and replace job on the Fox News RSS Feeds page.

    The last paragraph on this page gives it away:

    WhatTheyThink.com reserves the right to cease offering any or all of the RSS feeds at any time or to require you to cease distributing any or all of the feeds at any time for any reason. FOX assumes no liability for your activities in connection with the RSS feeds or for your use of the feeds in connection with your website.

    Here is a screen capture incase they dump it in a whoops we should maybe proof-read our stuff before committing it. WTT FOX

    The folks at WhatTheyThink might want to read Alex Halavais' How to cheat good.

    Comment by Mike - Monday, August 28, 2006 at 04:52 PM

  2. Whattheythink.com's feed is no improvement over your feedyes feed. I was hoping for some content in my feed reader. Something more then the date and place of the press releases.

    Comment by Anonymous - Monday, August 28, 2006 at 05:34 PM

  3. Hi - well the person that designed this for us certainly cut the corner on the terms of use section. I just wanted to comment that we have adjusted it to not be word for word from FOX and our own basic terms of use.

    Randy Davidson, WhatTheyThink.com

    Comment by Randy Davidson - Tuesday, August 29, 2006 at 12:49 PM