Well, it's the next phase of an ongoing experiment. If you are already subscribed to our feed from http://jwablog.jwa.org (http://feeds.feedburner.com/JWAblog) then you are now getting the whole feed. If you want to check it out, the subscription address is http://feeds.feedburner.com/JWAblog
Enjoy, and many thanks for the feedback ari On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Hoover, Joseph <Joseph.Hoover at mnhs.org> wrote: > 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:rjurban at illinois.edu] > 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/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ >
