From Desirable Roasted Coffee:
Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome comes down hard on full-text RSS feeds, ostensibly because … well, it’s never apparent why he doesn’t like them. Just that he’s not going to have them anymore.
I’d bet, though, it’s because he’d like to drive his site ad revenues up.
B. L Ochman comes down with four feet against full feeds. Why? It helps click-through on ads.
Also read Constantin Basturea on "Why I’m asking for full-text RSS feeds?".
UPDATE: I’ve switched back to full feeds
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Scoble recently said he prefers full feeds (without ads being his favorite): http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/05/18.html#a10147
So do I: http://hyku.com/blog/archives/000547.html
I always add an RSS feed to my news reader with the intention of reading the content. You hear that blog author? I am saying to you, “I feel your content is valuable, so I am subscribing to your feed” But my time is valuable as well. By not publishing a full feed you are not providing me what I want, the content.
Why I’m asking for full-text RSS feeds
Today I asked Trevor Cook if he will consider offering a full-text RSS feed for Corporate Engagement, and he asked back:
What’s the benefit of full-text? I’ve read a few people saying that they just make it harder to use an aggregator. People really j…
Full-Text RSS Feeds: Final Thoughts
Hopefully this should be the final post on this subject for a while. Just a few items: – Trevor Cook has listened to his audience and re-enabled full-text feeds. – Jeremy Zawodny…”I unsubscribed from Chris Pirillo’s blog because I was…
UPDATE: I’ve switched back to full feeds.
w00t! Thanks so much, Trevor!