Pheedo conducted research of RSS adoption in the automotive industry and here are some of their conclusions: - automotive enthusiasts are adopting RSS at an alarming rate and are extremely active: RSS feeds in general across all of Pheedo’s categories are growing at a rate of 7% month over month - based on impressions. The auto category, however, has seen growth of 38% month over month, and more than 500% growth during the fourth quarter of 2006 to-date. - automotive content publishers prefer summary and headline feeds: 63% of auto publishers offer readers summary RSS feeds while the rest publish headline-only feeds. No auto publishers in the Pheedo network currently deliver their content via full-text RSS feeds. - auto enthusiasts prefer headline-only feeds: Headline-only feeds garner a click-through rate (CTR) of 33% on content while summary feeds garner a 15% CTR. - Yahoo! leads content aggregators among auto category readers: The majority (52%) of RSS content readers across the automotive publishers in the Pheedo Network opt for Yahoo! RSS reader products, marking a departure from past Pheed Read data and trends in other content categories. Firefox placed second with 18% of the market share, while Bloglines, the top RSS reader in past Pheed Reads, came in well behind both with 7% market share. - auto category consumers are financially diverse and the vast majority are over the age of 35: Demographic data from the auto category shows that readers vary significantly in their household income with four different income brackets holding around 20% of the total readership. Additionally, consumers over the age of 35 represent more than 75% of the auto category readership. More on Pheedo

RSS Feed Etiquette
Attempts have been made to create best practice documents and specification clarifications. We felt it would be helpful to provide general guidelines for those constructing an RSS 2.0 feed. In general, the following are guidelines for constructing an RSS feed. It is good to get into the habit of validating the RSS feed, either with software, or with an online validator. RSS Feed Etiquette

Whats Up Feed Monitoring
Whats Up is a graduation project, but they might have some trademark issues with the popular network monitoring software by the same name - WhatsUp Whats Up? is an application that tracks a large number of RSS news feeds. The sources of these feeds are displayed on this world map. Whenever any of the news feeds releases a new article, its title immediately pops up. Instead of listing previously released news, this application shows news as it is released, so you can see what is up right at this moment in the world.

Link Love vs Link Bait
What is Link Love? Link Love is all about quality. In order to achieve Link Love you must establish authority and credibility. Link Love is all about being a reputable source, often recipients of link love are the first to post breaking news that is vetted and accurate. Bloggers, webmasters and publishers reward sources they genuinely enjoy with link love. Link Bait is often considered the evil step sister of Link Love. What is Link Bait? Link Bait is a hook. It is unique or even controversial content. Common sources of Link Bait include humorous items, accusations, controversy, or even implications. Link Bait is similar to ’shock and awe’; people cannot help but link because they are so intrigued (for good or bad). Link Bait often walks the line between acceptable and unacceptable. Link Love vs Link Bait