26 July 06
Sorry if you’re a subscriber and I’ve just messed up your feed. I have just changed the RSS to display a summary instead of the full post. Why am I doing this? Well there’s a few reasons really.
Increases comments
Comments have seem to dried up at the moment. It’s obviously nice to have a comment on your blog and not just because it doesn’t make you look like a no-comment loser. It helps the whole blogging process – it gives me an indication of what topics make my two readers like to read. A post with no comments make it seem like it wasn’t worth bothering sometimes!
That’s what RSS is meant for
Well, a dodgy reason this one, but depending on your meaning of RSS, it stands for Rich Site Summary. Not full posts, just a quick summary. I’m just sticking to the definition! Honest! It’s not for my…
Own self-satisfaction
I confess to be a bit of a stats geek. It’s to do with the way my brain works or something… but I love watching how many people hit my site. I check my logs about 23 times a day. I wish that was an exaggeration. But it’s not. Stats are like my heroin. Or my kryptonite. I can’t help checking. Seriously. Please. Someone. Help.
Ahem. Plus it stops you receiving the most part of my lame attempts at “humour”. You now only get 400 characters of it.
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Haha, cheers Jonathan.
Hmmm… I’ll have a think about summary feeds – it’s just an experiment at the moment. Maybe if my readership halves (from two readers to one) I’ll panic and turn the full fat feeds back on.
Ha. well. I prefer summaries myself, but I still can’t get feedburner to assist my homespun RSS reader (which I will not be upgrading, than’youverymuch, because I shouldn’t need to.
As an aside, I was reading this comment by Christian “The Lion” Heilmann yesterday – horses for courses, I guess.
http://www.wait-till-i.com/index.php?p=307
Comment by Jonathan Snook on 26 July 2006, 23:11
I have to say I was half-tempted to just email this response in just to spite you and leave you without comments. :)
btw: I tried summary feeds for awhile and found that it made no difference in the number of comments I got on my site.