I’ve decided to go back to summary feeds only. I know some of you will be unhappy about this, but the naked truth of it is that people who read the full feeds don’t come to the site. When I can try Google’s new ad program for RSS feeds, I’ll try full feeds again. Unhappily they aren’t accepting any new advertisers at the moment.
In the meantime, thanks to fds for his excellent suggestion about the Summaries. Starting today I will be manually writing the summaries for each new article; so at least what you see in the feed will make some sense.
Mike,
I think summary rss feeds are fine. I just wonder if you feel compelled to update the blog too often, rather than wait till you have an entry with a bit more substance? At the start, the stories were quite complete and every time a new rss headline appeared I clicked with interest. Of late there are too many stubs or drafts. But I haven’t removed it from my reader – and have no intention of doing so.
Keep going!
- Steve
fds – Thanks for your comment! It reminded me of a feature of WordPress that I have not been using: summaries. It allows me to specify my own summaries so I don’t have to rely on the automatically generated summaries. I’ll make it a point to do that from now on. It might even work as a way to highlight significant changes to an article.
you do what you have to do, as long as you don’t change your mind every couple of days readers will get used to it.
The thing that bugs me is the constant change in old blog posts. Couldn’t you update what you had to say with a new post so we don’t have to keep revisiting it and wondering if net news wire is buggy?
I’m very close to unsubscribing it because of this.
I have to second Ben here. It’d be cool to get a
list of changes via RSS. I don’t mind visiting the
site for the actual reading, but having to manually
look up the changes in old entries is not at all
user friendly
Aside from that, great project and good luck
with the book! And of course thanks for sharing
Jan
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Don’t mind the feeds. I click through to your site anyway.
Thanks for the read
I can no longer find the link to your RSS feeds. Where can I find them?