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I also noticed that the change of CMS had the effect of stopping the RSS feed. I do a fair bit of monitoring via a RSS reader – it’s normally a quick, painless set up and it’s a very efficient way of scanning what’s being said, particularly if your reader has a good search functionality. While the likes of the FT have limited RSS feeds (a couple lines – so basically pointless) and I hate it, but have to live with it, others like the BBC’s Peston blog did cut their feed at one point but seem to have reinstated the full feed. I’m sure in the short term the Sky change will help drive up pageviews – and no doubt ad sales-types at Sky will be pleased – but isn’t the move going to make Kleinman less relevant? The FT behind a paywall can – sort of – get away with restricted feeds, but can a free news site whose all raison d’etre is to grow its influence (particularly in the biz/finance area) really achieve its aim by cutting itself from the conversation?
Or maybe I am too old fashioned in that I like to read full pieces to understand the whole picture and Sky is betting that the twitterisation of news, that is to say a world where headlines and nothing else matter, will keep on devaluing well researched and sourced news stories. I suppose that would explain the long list of three weeks-old “I have learned” so-called exclusives: drive traffic.