We're testing out RSS feeds for our reviews. The feeds provide you a partial review (the same text that appears on the home page). To read the review, you need to click the review title and login, or be validated by your institutional subscription.
The feed is available at: http://www.reviews.com/tasks/rssfeed.cfm
Update: Please use the link for the Feedburner feed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/ReviewscomFeaturedReviews
I can see a few updates and changes I want to make to the content of the feed, including adding the reviewer's name as the author of the "post" but I still think they're very much worth adding to your reader if you're a CR regular (or hey, if you're a casual reader, too! Maybe we can convert you.). Let us know via the comments what you think (and yes, we plan to make alternate versions available - we're experimenting with what ColdFusion can output). I get my feeds via NewsGator and MyYahoo! and both are displaying the feed now.
We also want to integrate Hot Topics into the feed but I'm not sure if they should be within the main feed or as a feed of their own as they're not published as frequently or regularly.
One additional caveat is that the feed URL may change before we consider the feed a live release (do people even beta feeds? CR isn't a proper blog so I'm taking that as my excuse) so check back here occasionally for an update. I'm looking into putting the feed through Feedburner.com, which is also where the feed for this blog is, to track usage stats.
Update: I spoke too soon! We made the changes necessary to point the feed through Feedburner, so please use the updated link above.
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