Comments on: The latest Full vs Partial Feed Debate

By: Michael Bailey

Michael Bailey — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:13:31 +0000

“If at any point in this a feed gets boring I just mark all as read and go to the next feed. It’s a grazing metaphor. I’m looking for a green blade of grass so I’ll look through a lot of brown grass to get that.”

Comment by scobleizer — November 28, 2005 @ 2:53 am

What is the point of offering full feeds then?
Mark as as read – why the hell did we waste bandwidth delivering our full content to him in the first place?

We’re treating our internet sources like we treat our oil supply – ahh, just use however much bandwidth that you want – there will always be more.

Rewind the clock a bit – put Scoble, et all back on a 300 baud dial-up, see if their view of partial feeds change any ;-)

By: Michael Bailey

Michael Bailey — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:05:56 +0000

I prefer to treat RSS based upon its original purpose, as a Rich Site Summary – syndication has NOTHING to do with it, in fact, it ISN’T syndicated at all (Bet the cartoonist are laughing their heads off at all the blogger who feel Syndicated because they have a feed)

That said, RSS should be used as a tool to let other people know that there is, in fact, some new content on your site – it is not, was not intended to ship around entire web-sites as the full feed is now causing it to do – hell, people who subscribe to full feeds probably don’t read it anyhow – Scoble himself says that he initially just “glances” at it.

So, then…someone should come up with a Bookmark Reader…

And one last thing – those full feeds – the ones which are stolen and duplicated on those crappy link-bait sites? Yeah, I am very tired of trying to Google something, only to be taken to a site like that – having a full feed only contributes to that mess – until Google quits indexing link bait sites, why don’t you all just publish partial Rich Site Summaries instead..

k, nuff siad.

By: Tech Tester

Tech Tester — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:03:38 +0000

Sorry, a type error of my blog URL. It’s http://NetInformatiK.C.La/

By: Tech Tester

Tech Tester — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:00:58 +0000

Personally, I offer partial feed only.

Why ?

Because my articles are generally quite big. So, I think it’s better to get a preview of what is written. If it’s interesting go ahead and read. You’re not, then go ahead and go find something other interresting.

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Tech Tester
My Blog (In French) ==> http://NetIformatiK.C.La/
Translated to English by Google ==> http://66.249.91.104/translate_c?hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://netinformatik.c.la/&prev=/language_tools

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By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 03:20:41 +0000

I know I’ve arrived at this party late, but hopefully the band’s still playing. I’m not sure why this is generating such debate. I would have thought it was like most things in life…a personal choice.

My personal preference is for partial feeds because
a/ I want people to visit my blog and perhaps read some of my back catalog whilst they are there,and
b/ I tend to use a lot of pictures.

But ultimately it’s different strokes for different folks.

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