3) Social Media
CNN's Website is equipped with two of the bigger social networks (Facebook and Google) on their website. People can connect to the website using Facebook, and there is a twitter page for CNN breaking news. Additionally, CNN is creating its own "Digg" feature with an item called NewsPulse. This item helps measure the popular stories that are currently present on CNN.
CNN also has numerous blogs (a complete list can be found here). The most active one is the political ticker. Each can be subscribed to via XML.
Finally, there is an RSS feature present on CNN. However, the best way to use this feature is to have a Yahoo account. There are other ways (by pasting the address into an RSS reader) but this feature is not as user friendly.
Finally, CNN lists podcasts that it currently produces. Most of these podcasts correspond to the blogs. There are links to subscribe to each podcast, including a link to the podcasts on iTunes.
CNN's website uses many items related to social networks that it actively participates in. It is even trying to create some of its own versions of that social media.
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