Comments on: Give me your full length! http://www.milienzo.com/2007/09/12/give-me-your-full-length/ Jason Stone blogs about Web Design, Trends and Weekly Findings Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:31:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Paul Enderson http://www.milienzo.com/2007/09/12/give-me-your-full-length/comment-page-1/#comment-3862 Paul Enderson Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:21:57 +0000 http://www.milienzo.com/2007/09/12/give-me-your-full-length/#comment-3862 Nicely said. I noticed recently that a couple of my daily reads had started truncating their feeds - and I did the same as you and removed them from my reader. As far as I'm concerned, if I wanted to read the whole post on their site then I wouldn't have joined their feed in the first place... ;) Incidentally, thanks for having the most disctracting image in an article ever! :D Nicely said. I noticed recently that a couple of my daily reads had started truncating their feeds – and I did the same as you and removed them from my reader.

As far as I’m concerned, if I wanted to read the whole post on their site then I wouldn’t have joined their feed in the first place… ;)

Incidentally, thanks for having the most disctracting image in an article ever! :D

]]> By: dt http://www.milienzo.com/2007/09/12/give-me-your-full-length/comment-page-1/#comment-3248 dt Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:59:46 +0000 http://www.milienzo.com/2007/09/12/give-me-your-full-length/#comment-3248 Hi Aaron, Thanks for that. I think the optional excerpts is great as you still can format it. I always hated that truncated issue. Also it would seem that optional excerpts displays managed excerpts but will display the full RSS in your reader. Great for killing spam blogs. Please keep intouch. Hi Aaron,

Thanks for that. I think the optional excerpts is great as you still can format it. I always hated that truncated issue.

Also it would seem that optional excerpts displays managed excerpts but will display the full RSS in your reader. Great for killing spam blogs.

Please keep intouch.

]]> By: Aaron http://www.milienzo.com/2007/09/12/give-me-your-full-length/comment-page-1/#comment-3241 Aaron Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:02:07 +0000 http://www.milienzo.com/2007/09/12/give-me-your-full-length/#comment-3241 <strong>Firewalker</strong> - Thanks for visiting my site and commenting. Personally I don't mind if people read my site through their reader, but then I don't run any advertising. I just think that the one sure way of getting people to click their feed reader and visit your site is if your content is compelling enough to make them want to comment. <strong>DT</strong> - Good point. My Swiss Toni analogy didn't really consider content sploggers - in fact it doesn't bare thinking about what Swiss Toni would have to say about them. Well, I didn't delete your feed because I know your content is <em>always</em> quality, and to be honest I didn't actually notice your were doing excerpts. I think you do it a sensible way as the standard excerpt function is poor: firstly it just throws the first 50 words or so at the feed reader - not always enough to grab a readers attention; secondly it doesn't format the excerpt so you just get an ugly block of text in the feed reader - not enough to grab my attention. The way you do it avoids these problems. Firewalker – Thanks for visiting my site and commenting. Personally I don’t mind if people read my site through their reader, but then I don’t run any advertising. I just think that the one sure way of getting people to click their feed reader and visit your site is if your content is compelling enough to make them want to comment.

DT – Good point. My Swiss Toni analogy didn’t really consider content sploggers – in fact it doesn’t bare thinking about what Swiss Toni would have to say about them.

Well, I didn’t delete your feed because I know your content is always quality, and to be honest I didn’t actually notice your were doing excerpts. I think you do it a sensible way as the standard excerpt function is poor: firstly it just throws the first 50 words or so at the feed reader – not always enough to grab a readers attention; secondly it doesn’t format the excerpt so you just get an ugly block of text in the feed reader – not enough to grab my attention. The way you do it avoids these problems.

]]> By: Aaron http://www.milienzo.com/2007/09/12/give-me-your-full-length/comment-page-1/#comment-3240 Aaron Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:51:38 +0000 http://www.milienzo.com/2007/09/12/give-me-your-full-length/#comment-3240 <strong>Hi David</strong> - Unfortunately I've still got a few hundred unread posts in my reader. I need to build blog-reading back into my day. <strong>Shantanu</strong> - haha, I'm glad you found my post interesting ;) <strong>Justin</strong> - You know I don't think I have clicked an advert on any website for a few years - I really mean that too. I've just conditioned myself to ignore them. Hi David – Unfortunately I’ve still got a few hundred unread posts in my reader. I need to build blog-reading back into my day.

Shantanu – haha, I’m glad you found my post interesting ;)

Justin – You know I don’t think I have clicked an advert on any website for a few years – I really mean that too. I’ve just conditioned myself to ignore them.

]]> By: dt http://www.milienzo.com/2007/09/12/give-me-your-full-length/comment-page-1/#comment-3229 dt Sat, 15 Sep 2007 03:26:49 +0000 http://www.milienzo.com/2007/09/12/give-me-your-full-length/#comment-3229 Ah. But wait will you get spam blogs using your full feeds to run their adsense littered site. I have myself grasp on this issue many times. And decided to use optional excerpts instead that list a summary of your article. Its better than the "more" tag as you can control what your reader reads. I also use excerpts displayed on my site. Yes while it is more convenient to have full feeds, what I do is often, browse many rss sites and pick content to read by opening another tab or window. This weeds out the ones i want to read and comment. Thus an excerpt makes sense. Interestingly i have experienced an increase of rss readers not decrease. Ah. But wait will you get spam blogs using your full feeds to run their adsense littered site.

I have myself grasp on this issue many times. And decided to use optional excerpts instead that list a summary of your article. Its better than the “more” tag as you can control what your reader reads. I also use excerpts displayed on my site.

Yes while it is more convenient to have full feeds, what I do is often, browse many rss sites and pick content to read by opening another tab or window. This weeds out the ones i want to read and comment. Thus an excerpt makes sense.

Interestingly i have experienced an increase of rss readers not decrease.

]]> By: Firewalker http://www.milienzo.com/2007/09/12/give-me-your-full-length/comment-page-1/#comment-3222 Firewalker Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:24:28 +0000 http://www.milienzo.com/2007/09/12/give-me-your-full-length/#comment-3222 LOL I think people would get bored if I hadn't truncated the feed and they won't visit the site because they can just read the posts from their feed readers. LOL I think people would get bored if I hadn’t truncated the feed and they won’t visit the site because they can just read the posts from their feed readers.

]]> By: Justin Kistner http://www.milienzo.com/2007/09/12/give-me-your-full-length/comment-page-1/#comment-3209 Justin Kistner Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:21:54 +0000 http://www.milienzo.com/2007/09/12/give-me-your-full-length/#comment-3209 Having recently considered adding banner ads to my site, I heavily considered truncating my feed. I opted not to do it because I believe that the people that visit me regularly enough to subscribe, should be allowed to do so ad free. Most people who visit a site regularly have banner blindness on that site anyway. Having recently considered adding banner ads to my site, I heavily considered truncating my feed. I opted not to do it because I believe that the people that visit me regularly enough to subscribe, should be allowed to do so ad free. Most people who visit a site regularly have banner blindness on that site anyway.

]]> By: Shantanu http://www.milienzo.com/2007/09/12/give-me-your-full-length/comment-page-1/#comment-3160 Shantanu Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:35:40 +0000 http://www.milienzo.com/2007/09/12/give-me-your-full-length/#comment-3160 LOL! That, by far, is the most interested post on truncated feeds. :-D LOL! That, by far, is the most interested post on truncated feeds. :-D

]]> By: David Airey http://www.milienzo.com/2007/09/12/give-me-your-full-length/comment-page-1/#comment-3151 David Airey Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:39:44 +0000 http://www.milienzo.com/2007/09/12/give-me-your-full-length/#comment-3151 Haha, nice one Aaron. Hopefully you'll have saved yourself a good deal of time by clearing out the feed subscriptions. I know how quickly those unread posts can build up. Haha, nice one Aaron.

Hopefully you’ll have saved yourself a good deal of time by clearing out the feed subscriptions. I know how quickly those unread posts can build up.

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