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I noticed this morning that washingtonpost.com has started doing something kinda nifty with its RSS feeds: In addition to offering feeds based on its core coverage areas (national, metro, technology, etc.), they’ve also started offering feeds related to specific stories or topic areas, such as the military (XML) or North Korea (XML). (For example, a sidebar next to this story from today’s paper promotes an RSS feed about the Abu Ghraib prison scandal (XML).) I hope this experiment works out well; it’s a great way for folks to closely track the topics most important to them.

(On a side note, I wish they’d actually list all the RSS feeds available on their RSS feeds page, rather than a featured few. It also would be cool if they’d link some of the RSS feeds from the section subindexes (i.e., the Military and Abu Ghraib RSS feeds from the main Military page), in addition to story sidebars.)

Added 5:24 p.m. — And for all you Howard Kurtz fans out there, there’s a feed available just for Kurtz’s daily MediaNotes columns (XML)! Ideally, I’d like to be able to subscribe to have his new columns sent to me via e-mail (like the New York Times has for some of its writers, like technology columnist David Pogue), but this works almost as well. :)