From the "strange minds think alike" series...
Two days ago I unsubscribed from Chris Pirillo's blog because I was tired of reading a 6 word teaser to a story that didn't tell me if I'd really be interested.
Today, Scoble says:
I'm unsubscribing from Chris Pirillo's and any other feed that isn't full text. I'm tired of reading feeds that treat me badly. I have more than 1,300 full text feeds. There's one or two exceptions. The New York Times. CNET. Slashdot. But, sorry, Chris, I'll visit your site once in a while or whenever one of the bloggers that I read tells me you've written something interesting (which is quite often).
Well, then... Me too. Except for the 1,300 part.
Update: It turns out that the auto-discovery links in my entry pages pointed to the old crappy feed while the links on my main blog page pointed to the spiffy full-text one. I've fixed that. Now they all point to my full-text feed. Sorry 'bout that!
Posted by jzawodn at May 26, 2005 12:17 PM
It actually looks like Chris caved in this morning and started posting full text to his feed.
Really silly reason to unsubscribe, IMO. I prefer full text feeds, but if it's partial it won't make me unsubscribe.
simply scrape the page if you don't like the partial text ads.
still pisses you off having to do all that, but its a reasonable option.
(and how can somebody possibly maintain 1300 feeds?)
so the real issue is giving you enough to know if you're interested, right? Maybe his headings and topic sentences need to be better, and he can still publish a partial feed.
Jeremy, I thought you prefer reading only headings in your feed reader anyway. I thought I read that in your blog one time
Good god! You have a full-text feed? I've been bitching about "how can Jeremy be so lame as to only offer a partial-text feed ... of all people!"
Hint: your blog template only lists the following as RSS for your blog:
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/index.rdf
You should fix that.
I liken your reaction to a blog that wants to control your actions (i.e. you must click through a teaser) to my reaction to a television network that wants to mess with my desire to TiVo their programming by starting early, finishing late, etc.
I don't care how good a show is. If the network wants to treat me poorly, I will simply stop watching.
Like Dossy, NetNewsWire I've been using:
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/index.rdf
which is summaries only. It looks like individual entries list the above, while the home page lists full text versions.
er, that should be "in NetNewsWire I've been using".
Bug fixed. Now the auto-discovery tags on my posts *and* the home page point to the full feed.
Sorry 'bout that. I can't *believe* nobody noticed until now.
"Look at me! Look at me! I unsubscribed from a feed!"
Sheesh.
Hi Jeremy, I'm subscribed to your short-form RSS feed too... and still am because although you've changed your autodiscovery links, you havn't updated your old feeds to redirect to the "full text" ones.
As such, my newsreader is still fetching the short-form feed. Perhaps you could you do a "301 permanent redirect" or XML redirect on your old feeds - then newsreaders would update their source URL's automatically and start grabbing the better feed.
(XML redirect looks like this:
http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/feed/rss/
)
Wow ... I have the strange desire to buy male enhancement drugs now!
(In case Jeremy deletes the comment and what I just wrote becomes a horrible non sequiteur -- someone just drug spammed this entry, right above my comment.)
Jeremy,
I agree. Full feeds are really helpful. I am trying to publish full feeds on my blog, but had least success. Could you help me in publishing full feeds?
- V
