What are you looking for in your RSS feeds?
This morning, when going through my RSS feeds in FeedDemon, I noticed something that I'm sure I'd seen before but for some reason it struck me a little differently than normal - that some feeds at newspapers had different author information than other publications. Sure, everyone publishes their feeds differently, and everyone uses different content management systems. But it got me thinking, not so much that we need to call for consistency across the board, but that it seemed like no one was really sure what to put in individual entries / articles as far as author information, etc.
For example - the Seattle Times puts the email addresses of the author of each article, but only does so when the article is written by a Times staffer.
On the other hand, newspapers such as the Boston Globe go one step further, publishing the name of the author of the article, whether or not they work for the Associated Press or the Globe.
The New York Times publishes the name of the article author (in caps - just sayin'), and many of the newspapers in my feed reader don't publish any author information at all. Aside from that, many publications aren't adding any extra tidbits to their feeds - not that I can blame them just yet, as the mainstream isn't into all the del.icio.us linking and such - but I can see that coming. But I'd love to pose the question - is seeing author information, email addresses, or having other "features" available within RSS feeds from publications you read regularly helpful, and is there anything in particular you'd like to see across the board?
