I was hunting around for game tips just now and came across WiiReign. It is the wierdest blog - just news stories referenced on other sites, no human intervention at all. It seems like they’ve set up an RSS feed from google news or somewhere similar and are using this to build traffic. I am not sure that many people will go see it - it is coldly impersonal, and kind of sad in a way. I suppose that they will get some traffic through, but probably not many repeat views.
From a technical perspective, it is interesting - I have a similar thing (a partially newsfeed-generated page) over at MonsterWatch, but it is only part of the experience - the rest of it is human-crafted. I might add a similar page here but make it clear that it is “Wii in the news” rather than any sort of mainstream blog.
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