Full Post in RSS Feeds Please!
August 11th, 2007
I just saw this post from Joe Wikert, where he points out it is annoying and frequently unproductive to post only a portion of your syndicated post in the RSS feed. Joe says:
But what really irks me though is the way the blog is handling the RSS feed. I can’t stand blogs that don’t offer full content RSS feeds. If you’re only publishing a headline or teaser and expect me to come to your site, forget it. Life’s too short to keep up on all my RSS feeds and try to visit your site along the way.
Feeds from sites like Treehugger, and the Fairfax Media are a pain in the neck, because I have to visit their site, and not just read the whole story in my RSS reader. Sites like Cheeseburger Brown are cool, because the whole (and often lengthy) post can be viewed from my preferred RSS reader (currently Bloglines).
I’d be interested if anyone had the opposite view, and their reasons for thinking that way.
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