BBC RSS Strikethrough

Like many, I use RSS a lot. Really. Not as much as some, but more than most. It means I can browse the headlines of about 20 sites in the time it would take to looks at one of those site’s HTML pages. Most of these RSS feeds are auto-generated by the companies themselves, so I was curious to see this as part of the BBC feed today:

BBC on RSS

Er…looks like an editor changed the story there! No biggie. Out of curiosity, here’s how that story looked on the page:

BBC on site

2 Replies to “BBC RSS Strikethrough

  1. Nah, that’s real. Actually, in the few days since I posted this I’ve noticed a few more examples in the BBC RSS feed. Ah, workflow systems, I know them well. Actually, I’ve seen documents from companies in Word format who have neglected to remove edits and revisions which make for some pretty ineresting reading

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