Me too, me too. I know I'm probably not representative (AT ALL) of users out there, but I read when I'm lying in bed, or waiting for the train, or an airplane, or something else. And I don't use RSS feeds, except by pulling a few of them into Livejournal (using my laptop). Instead, I'll pull my content through LJ, Twitter, or what's fed through Flipboard (an iPad app). In Livejournal, I always appreciated the untruncated ones more. And the nice thing about Flipboard is that it scrapes the content, even if it's a simple link in Twitter. So I can preview and then open the full content within the app. So apparently, I'm a hybrid, preferences dependent entirely upon the way I access the content!
Anyway, I agree it'd be interesting to see if there's some usage data. ~Perian On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 12:42 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/ > -- Perian Sully http://www.emphatic.org http://www.musematic.net http://www.mediaandtechnology.org Twitter: @p_sully
