Feed up
Tony at Catholic Pillow Fight complains about my truncated site feed. Now I too am annoyed by sites that only have a partial site feed, but it doesn't annoy me too much to click through to the whole post. But I have never considered those that read RSS feeds offline an can't do this. There are more an more tools such as Google Gears that allow you to read feeds offline.
Though for those who want an RSS feed that lists the whole post including graphics simply use my ATOM feed. I have two feeds - one partial and one full. Unfortunately some browsers do not auto detect both feeds.
Some time ago I built the full feed when a reader requested that capability. So I will throw a pillow back at Tony and say "Hey all you had to do was ask."
Though to make it easier for others in my sidebar I now list both feeds under Site Feed and give a description.
What annoys me the most are those that have no RSS feed at all. For example Ellen at Oblique House a long time Catholic blog has never enabled her feed. If you create a blogspot blog now of days one is automatically created, older blogs though have to enable this in their settings. Other sites that annoy me that are without feeds is the excellent Catholic Report and the multiple Catholic news sites that do not have a feed (Catholic World News is the exemption). What really annoys me is new sites that go online without one. Once you get use to using an aggregator the thought of having to manually go to a site becomes quite annoying and often when I find a good site without a feed I just pass on it.
So for those subscribe to my partial feed here is my full feed http://www.splendoroftruth.com/curtjester/atom.xml
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Thank you!
I didn't know you had a full feed, and since I read all my rss feeds in google reader, it is muchly appreciated.
AARGHH!! I am I the only one who has no idea what this post means???
Who hooo!
Thank you!
Mil-- this means that the folks that are too lazy to visit the *checks* 65 web sites that they like to read, every day, several times a day can use the reader-- such as at www.google.com/reader -- and plug in the sites they want to read. Then, when the sites get new posts, those are sent to the reader-- but only if they have the "rss feed".
I'll be fixing my Jester feed too!
Oh happy day!
HOO RAY!
That is so much better. I enjoy reading your blog but, when I'm in a hurry, I use only the RSS Reader built into Microsoft Outlook. Now, I won't miss anything.
I hate partial feeds too and refuse to click through unless those 255 characters are tantalizing enough to get me to read more or to check out the comments. I've also noticed that after a while I'm less likely to even click those blogs on Bloglines.
Other pet peeves are commenting systems in which you have to register at the particular blog in order to comment [Tony!]. ;) Not too fond of moderated comments either...
Thanks for the update, Jeff. My reader autodetects both feeds, but I generally go for the one marked RSS (I've found less trouble that way). I had no idea you supplied a full feed in the other (Atom) one.
My entry's been updated to reflect that.
I use GreatNews to read my news. It's a portable app that fits on and runs on my thumb drive. So I can update my feeds at home, and read them on the bus or anywhere else I don't have access.
I can also plug the thumb drive into anyone else's computer and without installing anything on their machine, read my feeds.
question is for the bloggers though, is there a way to record the views via different readers? I like the Google reader, but wonder how many hits are missed because of readers not clicking through. Not that it makes a difference for non-ad bloggers, but it is nice to know that people are actually reading.
Excellent! Jeff, thanks for clarifying this. I wasn't aware of the other feed until now. Have just switched. Woo-hoo! (Yeah, I know, I gotta get out more.)
Delighted to receive this info. Already enjoying the non-watered-down feed.
Good point -- another blog that doesn't appear to have a feed is Matthew Lickona's.