I have to agree. I do most of my blog reading from my iPhone on bus rides back and forth to work. I general skip blogs that are truncated, since reading the complete post requires me to switch over to a web browser and leave the RSS reader app. However, that is a personal reading habit, and I agree with Richard's thoughts. I wonder if any institutions have set up blogs with truncated posts and blogs with complete texts and have done a comparison of mobile traffic of both.
Joe Hoover Digital Technology Outreach Specialist Minnesota Historical Society Historic Preservation Department 345 W. Kellogg Blvd. 55102 (651) 259-3461 joe.hoover at mnhs.org www.mnhs.org/lhs -----Original Message----- From: Richard Urban [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 1:57 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] rss feeds today 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/
