As with the print products, USA Today is news “lite”, with colorful graphs, laid out in a pleasing manner, but intended for very casual readers.

NYT has longer articles, fewer pictures, and depth and article density that just don’t lend themselves easily to “news mcnuggets”

It’s a hard thing to make palatable to an audience that isn’t used to heavy reads. I give them at least a B+ for trying to bridge the gap.

I was just playing around with the My Times beta, and you can in fact add RSS feeds from outside sources to your page. There’s no OPML import, but you can paste the URL of a feed into a box and add it to your page fairly easily.

Mathew

I do, however, like your observation on timeliness. It would be interesting if RSS helped escort online journalism back toward a focus on precision reporting in a timely manner, rather than streaming hyperbole at the bottom of a screen or fat-laden magazine pieces on things like “Night Eating Syndrome.”

>>Isn’t it ironic that the NYTimes is offering a more sterile
>>RSS experience than USAToday?

Not all the too ironic, actually, since the NYTimes offers a more sterile version of the news everyday. Sterility is the devil.

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