Hi Richard, In the end, the chorus of people who preferred to have the entire post in the RSS feed was so strong, primarily in the use case you describe (reading on mobile devices), and the prevalence of using the entire post so common, that we're just going that route.
I think that eventually we'll have a "summary of what is happening on jwa.org" feed, which will include synopsized blog posts, but for now, it seems pretty clear that for most people there is a very strong preference for the entire post, html, image and all, via rss. This may speak in part to how poorly we (and most people) make our sites accessible via mobile devices, but clearly there is more going on. Many thanks to everyone who responded. ari On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Richard Urban <rjurban at illinois.edu> wrote: > Hi Ari, > > This is just my personal opinion, but may be informative. > > I do most of my blog reading these days in little snippets of off-time via my > iPhone, while on or waiting for the bus, etc. ? ?What I've noticed is that I > tend to stick to blogs with complete texts on my iPhone and save blogs with > truncated posts for reading on my computer. ? I find that on my iPhone > switching in and out of my Google Reader view is too much of a hassle, > especially if I have to do this for every post on a particular feed. ?I'd > prefer to stay in the accordion interface that GReader provides, as I find it > a more efficient way of reading posts from lots of different blogs. ?In > several cases, I have blogs organized as a group and don't read them > individually. I also share posts with a close-knit group of friends on Google > Reader, ?which has it's own sharing features that are different than the ones > included on the bottom of JWA posts. > > Maybe just me...I wonder if there are any good studies out there about blog > reading habits on mobile vs. non-mobile devices. > Is there any way to configure Feedburner to allow users to select short vs. > long posts? ? From my perspective that would be a better solution than > limiting them to one choice. > > Richard > rjurban at illinois.edu > > > > On Aug 25, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Ari Davidow wrote: > >> I just got a complaint from someone about our "truncated" RSS feed. >> Back in the day, we dutifully read the RSS 2.0 spec and put just a >> synopsis, or the first part of a post, into the feed. >> >> I do note that I am seeing lots of posts where the whole thing has >> made its way into the RSS. I'm not fond of it--I liked being able to >> treat RSS more like a TOC and not have to wade through post-length >> text in which I wasn't interested. But I'm also old enough to pass as >> fuddy-duddy. >> >> What are other people doing? Just put it all into RSS? Are you >> including HTML markup as well, or still sticking to plain text? Does >> it break anything? >> >> thanks, >> ari >> _______________________________________________ >> You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer >> Network (http://www.mcn.edu) >> >> To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu >> >> To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: >> http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l >> >> The MCN-L archives can be found at: >> http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ > > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ >
