Clipped Feeds Suck

I’ve decided to unsubscribe from any blog that doesn’t post full posts on their feed. I think people shouldn’t be stat whores and they should give it up for free (am I mixing metaphors?). The worst offenders are the ArtsJournal family (though my fav Modern Art Notes offers full feeds) & the NY Times’ Artsbeat blog, which I’ll miss reading but a boy has gotta have standards.

I have no time to click through on everything, specially since I read about 300 blogs a day and many of them on the run using Byline on my iPhone. Memo to bloggers…don’t waste my time for the sake of your stats!

4 responses to “Clipped Feeds Suck”

John M.

January 9, 2009

Hear, hear! I do the same.

The only exception I make is for blogs that give cogent summaries – news feeds and the like. If I get (…) in the middle of a sentence: See ya!

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libhomo

January 11, 2009

A lot of us don’t even look at our feeds. I presume that the default feed for Blogger doesn’t do this.

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Amy

January 12, 2009

I totally agree with you. I don’t like it at all. The whole point of a reader is so you DON’T have to click onto separate blogs all day. Clipped feeds totally defeats the purpose of the reader in the first place!

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Sharon

January 13, 2009

Hi Hrag,
Sorry to annoy. I changed the feed to “short” when I add new content to the sidebar area. Readers who use Bloglines and Google Reader get the main text but not the sidebar updates. I wanted to alert everyone to the Pocket Utopia Blogger Salon (http://www.pocketutopia.com) on Sunday, January 18, at 4pm. Hope you can make it.
Sharon

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