Fans of RSS should be reasonably impressed by the UK General Election. Two out of the three main parties are providing RSS feeds to help you keep track of their progress, news and announcements.

The Conservatives offer three separate feeds for news, speeches and articles.

The Lib Dems provide 12 separate feeds covering different policy areas. Personally I don't think this is the right approach as it is quite a pain to have to register 12 different feeds in my news reader. It probably reflects their split personality when campaigning. The Liberal Democrats are infamous for saying one thing in one area, and something entirely different elsewhere. For example one of their ten pledges in the south west of England is to ensure that the south west gets a fair share of national government spending and put an end to the Barnett formula which means Scotland gets more. In Scotland, not surprisingly, one of their ten pledges is to get even more resources for Scotland.

A single combined feed might make this difficult for them!

Even the tiny Respect provides a feed. Although they weren't quite internet savvy enough to register all the alternatives for their name so you get www.respectcoalition.co.uk.

The glaring omission in all this is of course the Labour Party which provides a grand total of zero feeds despite the fact it is employing former MoveOn.org and John Kerry campaign adviser Zack Exley.

BTW I need to declare my allegiance. I am a long-standing Labour Party member and activist. Currently I am an elected city councillor in Leeds. I have also worked as a full-time officer for the Labour Party and the Labour Party has been a client of my company NetworxPR.