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By: mobifeeds - the development weblog » Blog Archive » Publishers who don’t understand the medium they’re in

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 02:26:26 +0000

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By: bangitliketmac » Blog Archive » Full RSS Feeds!

bangitliketmac » Blog Archive » Full RSS Feeds! — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:45:19 +0000

[...] RSS feeds should have all the information contained in the real story. Man I hate feeds that only have a title, or just have a couple sentences. WeBreakStuff.com posted about this again: Full RSS Feeds to read the full article. Go here to digg the post. [...]

By: Toby Matejovsky

Toby Matejovsky — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:44:58 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree. Short feeds are frustrating and ignore the huge convenience of aggregating *all* your news in one place. The worst are feeds that only provide a title. Feeds with a few lines are nearly as bad. I’ve unsubscribed and entirely stopped visiting some sites that I liked based purely on this fact.

Support Full Feeds!

By: Oskar Syahbana

Oskar Syahbana — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:22:46 +0000

Starting a year ago, I provided full feed for my users. Of course there’s a drawback on this (such as my content got copied by bitacle — violation of fair use et al) but still, I like the idea that my bandwith is “saved” somehow.

Bandwith is costly you know :)

By: Candice Harris

Candice Harris — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 13:00:08 +0000

I think you are right about it. Why not to save time for people who want to get the information which is interesting for them but not just accumulating in the RSS feeds.

By: Paul Irish

Paul Irish — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 02:43:50 +0000

Gifford very smart!

full feeds. neccesary. truth.

By: Jason Walker

Jason Walker — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:15:29 +0000

I agree, full posts or out you go. I do a much better job summarizing whats important _to me_ than the author would anyway.

By: doug

doug — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 03:01:19 +0000

With the ability to insert ads into RSS feeds, I'm not sure why sites would feel the need to do summaries for revenue purposes (of course, RSS feed CTRs may be dismal? I don't know). Amy Gahran has an excellent post on this a while back. She concludes that if you have to choose one, do summaries.

By: Full RSS Feeds « Nels Wadycki

Full RSS Feeds « Nels Wadycki — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:31:28 +0000

[...] The topic of Full RSS feeds is something that comes up every once in a while… Usually I have to bug sports blogs about it since they’re not always the most techno-savvy. [...]

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:26:40 +0000

Play bullshit card, I play rebuttal. Fact is when I scan through my feeds, I read the titles (which is why they count) and screenshots if it applies to the kind of feed I’m looking at. It isn’t an ideal situation for summaries because even if I did read the summary, it wouldn’t be the 3 first lines of a lenghty post that would tell me if it was worth my while or not. I’m not saying you don’t have a point, but I am saying it doesn’t apply to me or the majority of people.