Over the past few weeks I have really been on a RSS kick. RSS is great!! It allows you to automatically receive live updates of news sites, blogs, etc… so when I went to make all my Live Bookmarks (in FireFox), adding the CBC was a must (being the Canadian public broadcaster and all)… but then something disappointing happened… i realized the CBC has no official RSS feed…. I found this quite odd, the BBC, NY Times, Reuters.. etc all have RSS feeds, so guess what… I emailed the CBC.. and this is what they said:
Dear Joe,
Thank you for your email requesting CBC.ca use a RSS feed for headlines.
At this time CBC.ca uses the Klip format, which is a way to allow users to receive CBC.ca headlines at no direct cost to the user. However we are looking at implementing an RSS feed in the near future.
We will certainly send your comments on to the Director of New Media and record them on our Audience Reaction Report, which is circulated throughout our New Media Department, and amongst our senior producers and
programmers within the CBC including the President and CEO, Robert Rabinovitch.We appreciate your taking the time to contact us.
Parker Bishop
Communications Assistant
CBC Audience Relations
It was a pretty generic response, but I was glad to get a reply, and I hope the CBC implements RSS feeds soon.
UPDATE: 2004.12.12: CBC has RSS now http://www.cbc.ca/rss/