Aug 28, 2006
Ridiculous Item Of The Week: RSS For Emergency Updates
Imagine my pleasant surprise when I saw the National Hurricane Center/Tropical Predication Center (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov) actually provides an RSS feed for a particular storm.
What a brilliant use of RSS… except of course when they just provide headlines and no frikin content (screenshot from my news reader):
Come on, a partial feed for essentially an emergency broadcast system? Reminds me of network news “coming up after the break, what you don’t know might kill you”.
They even have an “about RSS” page and on that page it says:
The idea is to give users the ability to quickly obtain the latest news and updates from a site in a headline or news digest format
(Emphasis added).
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