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I'm finally back up to speed now, and I remembered I'd seen some RSS buttons on The Scotsman newspaper site last time I was there. I went back to investigate and found the Webfeeds section (here's a direct link to the list of feeds). It's absolutely incredible! Absolutely! Incredible! The have hundreds of feeds on there - everything from the headlines to wheelie bin issues (a big deal in Edinburgh at the moment), rugby to broadband. This is *exactly* how I want to get my news - diced into categories, which I can easily view. Someone at the Scotsman really, really gets how to grab readers - well done!

After making this great discovery, and subscribing to eleven feeds, I decided to see what other UK national newspapers were doing about it. So far, I've dropped a mail to the Indepedent, FT, Telegraph and Times, all of which have nothing obvious on their sites. The Guardian is currently having some technical issues - I'll mail them as soon as normal service resumes. No responses from the papers, but I'll update here when I receive anything back.

Interestingly, two of those papers, the Independent and FT, have chargeable content which brings me back to Dave's thoughts of a while back on secure access. I'm assuming something has progressed since then, so the technical issues of offering feeds should be fairly limited. Perhaps we can even see decent versions for mobile devices coming up - I'm going to suggest to the Scotsman that they make that their next project.

If you're still saying "what is he on about", then have a read of this article that the Scotsman also points to.