14. A computer-implemented method of characterizing an audience of subscribers to a digital content feed service to support selection or editing of preflight articles, the method comprising: selecting a plurality of articles to publish to the audience of subscribers based on one or more subscriber profiles; publishing the plurality of articles to the subscriber audience via the feed service; analyzing each of the published articles to generate article information; storing the generated article information for each published article in a data store in association with an identifier of a corresponding author; tracking individual subscriber actions associated with each of the published articles to acquire attention data, wherein tracking includes identifying if an individual subscriber leaves one or more of the published articles “unread”; analyzing the acquired attention data to form an indication of each subscriber's response to each of the published articles; storing the indicia of each subscriber's response to support correlation of subscriber attention to the stored article information; and building profiles based on the stored article information and the attention analyzer.
14. A computer-implemented method of characterizing an audience of subscribers to a digital content feed service to support selection or editing of preflight articles, the method comprising: selecting a plurality of articles to publish to the audience of subscribers based on one or more subscriber profiles; publishing the plurality of articles to the subscriber audience via the feed service; analyzing each of the published articles to generate article information; storing the generated article information for each published article in a data store in association with an identifier of a corresponding author; tracking individual subscriber actions associated with each of the published articles to acquire attention data, wherein tracking includes identifying if an individual subscriber leaves one or more of the published articles “unread”; analyzing the acquired attention data to form an indication of each subscriber's response to each of the published articles; storing the indicia of each subscriber's response to support correlation of subscriber attention to the stored article information; and building profiles based on the stored article information and the attention analyzer. 15. The method of claim 14 wherein the digital content feed service is an Internet content feed service.