The Economics of RSS Feeds

One of the things that really surprised me when I started at The Atlantic was that the company was intending to provide full-text RSS feeds. The folks from upstairs explained why that was a smart economic decision, and since they were telling me what I wanted to hear I bought it. But now Felix Salmon also makes that case thus providing some independent confirmation.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/10/the-economics-of-rss-feeds/46537/