Most RSS feeds give you headlines for every new entry on a blog. Of course, the use of RSS outside the world of blogs is somewhat more sophisticated. The New York Times and Washington Post feeds don’t deliver every headline. You subscribe for feeds from various sections. Now Engadget has applied the same sense to its blog, allowing users to subscribe to the various categories instead of the whole blog.

For those of us using software that doesn’t provide that capability, we can only wait for the coders to jump on the bandwagon and add it to their programs. In the meantime, it’ll be interesting to see how the trend evolves.