The genesis of this site was that I had a ton of sites in my newsgator account and I wanted to be able to read them as quickly as possible. Newmark’s Door was the first site which I emailed. The author is a professor of economics who combines a steady flow of econ-related topical posts with a hodge podge of quick links to interesting articles about almost anything. Also impressive is that his almost his whole family is blogging at a high level, with both his wife and his daughter’s blogs being of quality, if with different focuses than Newmark’s Door.
I loved his site but, in May or so, his feed became an excerpted feed, where before it had been full text. I began getting frustrated, especially when some of his shorter posts would end up with only a couple more words when you clicked through. Totally inefficient. So I shot him an email.
Is there any reason you have only a summary in your RSS feed? I know you used to have a full feed. I like your site but I’m pruning my aggregator of links to sites that dont have a full feed, as the additional 30 seconds it takes to go to each journal entry may seem short, but when one subcribe sto 100 different feeds, it starts adding up into dozens of minutes of wasted time a day. I didn’t know if I was just missing the full text feed for your site or not.
Let me know and keep up the good work,
Will
His response was prompt.
O.K., I’ve changed the configuration of my RSS feed to what Typepad claims is a full feed. Give it a little while to take effect. If you don’t have a full feed tomorrow, please let me know.
Thanks for your kind words and thanks for reading my blog.
Craig
It took only a couple minutes for all involved and it showed the responsiveness and the accountability inherent to the internet, things I appreciate more than any of the 50 things in this post by Craig. He didn’t have to switch and , who knows, maybe in the future he will decide that excerpted feeds are better for him. But he has saved me a lot of time and kept a loyal reader. Newmark’s Door was the first site of our “Full Text Rss” revolution.