how to adapt the practice and business of journalism to the Web

Spread your news (and RSS ads) with SpringWidgets.com

SpringWidgets offers an easily modified, shared and embedded tool that displays RSS feeds on any Web site.

Continue after the break to see an example of the widget.

Here’s an example of it displaying an RSS feed from my other site:

Get this widget!

Here’s what do with your widget:

  1. Intersperse the RSS feed of articles with useful ads, and this could serve as another revenue source;
  2. Make a general-news-feed version prominently available to Web sites (bloggers and other news organizations, for example) associated with your geographic area;
  3. Make a topic-specific-feed version available to Web sites relevant to that topic.

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