Partial feeds are a bitch. For real. by Jonas

Feedburner, the oh so lovely company, has once again pointed out the irrelevance of having partial RSS feeds as an incentive for people to click through to the site and bring more traffic and money to the publisher. Of course Feedburner has an agenda with this, therefore I’m quite interested to see how John Batelle’s experiment is going to end up.

The general rule I have is that I don’t subscribe to partial feeds, just because I get so annoyed with them and have to leave my feed just for a headline that seems only mildly interesting.

[tags]Feedburner, RSS, John Batelle, Partial feeds, experiment[/tags]

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April 20, 2007 / 5 Comments.

5 Comments

  1. Danne Lundqvist replied:

    Am I missing something. I get the impression that you don’t like partial feeds. Yet you publish a partial feed. I think it is up to each individual to decide what they do with their content and won’t judge anyone. But it makes me a bit curious ;)

    April 20th, 2007 at 2:36 pm. Permalink.

  2. Jonas replied:

    Not sure really how you get our feed as partial, since we’ve always published it as a full text feed.

    Of course it’s up to each individual to decide what they want to do. But this blog post is expressing my opinon and my opinion is still that partial feeds sucks.

    April 20th, 2007 at 3:45 pm. Permalink.

  3. i have an evil twin replied:

    how does my picture end up on your comments? there might be a mybloglog cookie on your computer… or cause we share the url.

    April 20th, 2007 at 3:50 pm. Permalink.

  4. Jonathan replied:

    “I think it is up to each individual to decide what they do with their content and won’t judge anyone. But it makes me a bit curious”

    Another curious issue is unsolicited feed aggregation.(www.oversikt.se)…

    by the way, i’m not a huge fan of partial feeds either.

    April 20th, 2007 at 4:14 pm. Permalink.

  5. Danne Lundqvist replied:

    I created “översikt” as my own personal feed aggregator but thought more people would like it and made it public. I did contact a few bloggers. As you pointed out I didn’t ask everyone. I really didn’t think anyone would mind.

    April 23rd, 2007 at 9:19 am. Permalink.

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