Something rotten in the crotch of RSS?
Posted By Corey on November 27th, 2005
Going through Scoble’s blog, CTRL+Q’ing the stuff that’s duped or isn’t so interesting I stumbled upon blogger comedy gold.
The brothers in RSS advocacy aren’t in sync anymore. Scoble has unsubscribed from Pirillo.
Back about 8 months ago in March I talked to Chris about the lack of full text feeds on his blog. He did mention looking into getting them turned on. At the time though he also suggested I do the incredible and actually download the webpage (via Fetchlinks for NewsGator).
What the!? Combine this with all the dead blogs. And the dead readers.
Maybe the blubble has burst, dead blogs, dead readers, nothing radically new, major RSS advocates not even using RSS to the fullest. Tsk tsk… What is going on in the world?
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December 6th, 2005 at 1:16 am
There’s two very good reasons not to offer full text:
1) Sites who regularly rip off other people’s content have a field day with full text. Nothing makes me madder than seeing someone else generating ad dollars from articles I invested my time in researching and writing.
2) If I offer full text, I don’t get paid for my time. I might lose a few people reading the feeds, but the revenue increase I gained from turning off full text on my own feeds made up for any ubergeeks who no longer subscribe.
As long as you don’t care about generating revenue from your blog, then full text is certainly the way to go.