Tom's Hardware (http://www.tomshardware.com/) is hugely popular publishing site that focuses on that computer hardware industry. Their content runs the full range, from content they develop, to content that they republish through RSS syndication, and also links to external content.
The main thing that caught my eye about TH is that they encode lots of meaning in their urls:This seems like overkill, but imagine a user looking at links in their browsing history. From the link alone, they know tons of stuff about the content it leads to, such as the name of the article, year, month and day it was published, etc.
They could follow the link as it is stored, or they could load the link into the address control, and trim off the elements in the url one at a time and expose different subsets of the site's content:Interfaces like this take some of the burden off of the graphical site navigation. It's not a short-cut to facilitate this kind of browsing. It's just exposing the site to the creativity and urgency of the user.