The Chronicle of Higher Education Has RSS Feeds
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This is great. The Chronicle is one of the news sources I have to monitor every day. The feeds transmit more than just the article headlines. There’s a little bit about each article, too. I’ve been following the announcements of commencement speakers. The feed includes the names of the institutions announcing speakers instead of just the headline “Commencement Speakers Are Announced by X Colleges.” I won’t have to click through the headline to see which institutions’ speakers the Chronicle now has information about.
Unfortunately, they don’t have feeds for everything on their Web site. It features different stories from upcoming and recent issues each day. Often these articles are items I need to read or inform others of, so I’m not sure how useful this particular feed is going to be to me when I’ll have to check the Web site each day for these other articles anyway. Maybe they’ll add feeds for other portions of their site soon.
Thanks for sharing, Garrett!
Addendum 5/5: The links the Chronicle uses in its feed are links that are restricted to subscribers. They have a mechanism for generating temporary URLs for nonsubscribers, which they use for e-mailing articles. I wonder why they don’t use those temporary URLs in their RSS feed. If you don’t enter a username and password when you click through an article, you get bounced to a page where you can subscribe. It seems to me that granting people access to the article with a teaser on the page about subscribing or letting them buy a pass to view one article, like many news organization archives do, could be a better revenue model.
Instead of following the link to the Commencement speakers article, I have to load my aggregator. Which task is more efficient? ha ha ha
