financial times rss

FT offers a dizzying array of separate rss feeds for its articles, but i don't think all of them end up in the print newspaper. i'd like to get the articles that the editors have deemed most important, without having to pay the £2/paper to get them. so... i bought a copy and tried to find where the articles in the paper show up in rss. and here they are, in roughly the order of importance given at the end of 'all you need to know about the city': lex column lex main 2nd (companies and markets) section companies: companies main, uk (companies|uk, though there's a lot that's not in the paper here), uk smaller companies (companies|uk) markets: markets main (markets section, last page) 1st section management: management main (business life) comment: comment main, opinion, analysis (comment & analysis) world: world main, europe, asia-pacific, africa, us, uk business, uk economy looks like google reader might be a convenient way to combine all the streams into one and maybe even keep track of which have been read already. and i was hoping the mobile version (http://www.google.com/reader/m) would simplify the scraping to whittle it down around the body text. but it doesn't always work; sometimes it only takes the first paragraph or two and scraps the rest, probably because it catches a break before a table or image. so i think i'll have to navigate through to the original page and scrape from there. EDIT: i guess the people at ft are smart enough to make it easy for me. they post links for their print edition (and us, europe, middle east, and asia editions). only thing i didn't find on that page was the 'money' special pullout from the weekend edition. i think most of those articles were in the 'personal finance' section of the website. and i discovered that each html page for a section has an rss icon link in the upper right, so it's easy to snag stuff once i know where they are on the website. going through the sections, i found they went roughly in order with pretty close, though not exact, correspondence to the articles in print. here are the sections on the website and the page numbers of articles listed under them, to give you an idea of the density: front page: 1,1 must read national news: 2,2,2,3,3,4,4,4,4,4,4 skip 1/2 to 2/3 world: 5,5,5,5,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,7,7,7,7,8,8,8 good read comment & analysis: ,9,10,10,10,10,11,11,11,11 skip some of these, though the latter ones are really good letters: 10,10,10,10,10 skip all of these! life & arts: (pull-out) 1,2,2,2,2,3,4,4,5,5,5,6,7,6,6,7,8,9,19,10,10,11,11,11,12,12,13,13,14,14,20,20,17,17,17,17,17,17,17,17,17,17,17 a lot of things skipped between 14 ad 17, but i would skip this whole section. ft magazine: (pull-out) 15,54,12,7,10,8,44,44,47,43,43,46,46,52,53,51,50,49,48 i would skip almost all of this house & home: (pull-out) 1,2,2,3,6,7,7,8 i would skip practically all of this section lex: 24,24,24,24 must read companies: 12,12,?,13,13,12,14,14,14,14,14,15,15,15,14,15,16,16,16,16,?,17,17,?,17 good read, especially toward the end markets: 22,22,?,23,23,23,23,24 must read