Full text feeds pay off for this blogger

December 8, 2006 By

I love Amit Agarwal’s analysis on the full-text vs. partial text debate. I HATE partial text feeds. I am subscribing to a few now (Dan Farber, for instance) but I find I link to them far less often than people who give me full text feeds. What does that do? Well, read Amit’s analysis. And, yes, I did “steal” Amit’s content and put it on my link blog.

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  • http://www.duncanriley.com/ Duncan

    Of course, the delicious Irony for me here Robert is I’m still reading you blog in Bloglines via a part feed, not a full feed. Feel free to switch the full feed back on though :-)

  • http://www.duncanriley.com Duncan

    Of course, the delicious Irony for me here Robert is I’m still reading you blog in Bloglines via a part feed, not a full feed. Feel free to switch the full feed back on though :-)

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ Robert Scoble

    Duncan: again, WordPress.com publishes a full-text feed at http://scobleizer.com/feed/

    I never turned it off.

    If you can’t see a full-text feed at that address, maybe you need a better news aggregator. Google Reader shows full text there. So does NewsGator.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ Robert Scoble

    Duncan: again, WordPress.com publishes a full-text feed at http://scobleizer.com/feed/

    I never turned it off.

    If you can’t see a full-text feed at that address, maybe you need a better news aggregator. Google Reader shows full text there. So does NewsGator.

  • http://miniaturemage.blogspot.com/ MiniMage

    Wizz RSS also shows me partial feeds, and I changed from the WordPress, URL to the Scobleizer URL. Ah, well, it isn’t hurting me any. Perhaps Wizz will have it right the next time I use it.

  • http://miniaturemage.blogspot.com MiniMage

    Wizz RSS also shows me partial feeds, and I changed from the WordPress, URL to the Scobleizer URL. Ah, well, it isn’t hurting me any. Perhaps Wizz will have it right the next time I use it.

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  • http://www.2dollarlink.com Vali Frolov

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  • Mike

    It seems as if a few uninformed people think that getting partial text from a feed is the fault of the feed reader (See post #31 for example). A feed reader reads what is presented in the feed XML. If the publisher of the feed includes full text in the feed, the reader will show the full text. Conversely, if the publisher of the feed only includes partial text in the XML, the reader will only show partial text.

  • Mike

    It seems as if a few uninformed people think that getting partial text from a feed is the fault of the feed reader (See post #31 for example). A feed reader reads what is presented in the feed XML. If the publisher of the feed includes full text in the feed, the reader will show the full text. Conversely, if the publisher of the feed only includes partial text in the XML, the reader will only show partial text.

  • Guest

    well we like full text feeds because if they are not it make our system seem to not work, lots of our customers have two feeds one for short and one for full text for “special” uses.

    like this one: here is this blog as a podcast

    http://www.feed2podcast.com/player/podcast_player.php?url=http://www.feed2podcast.com/podcast/93596840.xml

  • http://feed2podcast.com robbie schmelzer

    well we like full text feeds because if they are not it make our system seem to not work, lots of our customers have two feeds one for short and one for full text for “special” uses.

    like this one: here is this blog as a podcast

    http://www.feed2podcast.com/player/podcast_player.php?url=http://www.feed2podcast.com/podcast/93596840.xml

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