Haven't had time to look at them yet, but it sounds damn interesting. Here's the Slashdot article, and the BBC Backstage page.
could be an interesting way of adding content. I'll be looking into this somewhat over the course of the day.
I was about to start a thread on this... I'm amazed no one seems to have taken an interest, mind you what with the election going on people are most likely too busy to think about work Anyway, already there are some very cool bits being developed over at http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/ One I particularly like is http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/prototypes/archives/2005/05/rss_discussion.html Very very cool... I need to go away now and think about what my next little tool could be
I think this may be the wave of the future as more and more media outlets realize that they can't "horde" the news to themselves and expect to stay in business. Using other publisher to distribute thier news is one way of grabbing marketshare.