Thoughts on the debate over full text RSS feeds vs. partial feeds:
If everyone is going to publish their full posts, some of them many thousands of words long, why should we bother to publish blogs at all? We should all just publish full text RSS feeds and skip the blogs altogether. It takes too much time to look at them anyway.
That would end all the silly business about trying to develop business models for blogs. And it would nip the blog advertising industry in the bud. Hey, bloggers who want to run ads should realize that content wants to be free.
A Modest Proposal About Full vs Partial RSS Feeds
BL Ochman | June 8, 2005 | Permanent Link | Comments (4) | TrackBack (
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You’re exactly right, BL. It does take too much time to read 250-300 individual blogs.
So RSS feeds are the answer.
Now, you and some others must decide if getting your content out to readers is first priority, or if getting eyeballs to your website is most important.
If it’s the latter, you’d better be extraordinarily good, because I already skip tons of ad-driven websites without RSS feeds.
Ironically, if you write damned good content, we will show up at your site. Maybe not every day, but sooner or later.
Allan
Allan: Actually, I was joking.
RSS feeds are waaaaay far from the answer.
BL
Yes – content does want to be “free”, that’s why many bloggers, like me ( http://www.smallbiztechnology.com) have advertising support web sites. Some sites sell content, some sell advertising and some do no sales but hope for other recognition.
I do not use full feeds as I want eyeballs to my web site and I get them – thousands and thousands thanks to RSS feeds and a newsletter.
RSS is the answer, but you need to provide full feeds! Check http://www.fullfeeds.com/