Actually, I agree with you all, even though I do read my blog entries on a laptop or computer most of the time. I find that because I am pushed for time, I'd rather quickly skim over everything on the one page rather than keep going back and forward between pages.
We make the Museum of London blog rss feed available in full: http://feeds.feedburner.com/MuseumOfLondon Good luck! Bilkis. Bilkis Mosoddik Web Content Manager, Web Team, Communications Museum of London 150 London Wall London. EC2Y 5HN Tel: 020 7410 2213 / 020 7814 5723 Fax: 020 7600 1058 Email: bmosoddik at museumoflondon.org.uk www.museumoflondon.org.uk Spectacular new ?20 million Galleries of Modern London opening at Museum of London on 28 May 2010. Follow us online: www.museumoflondon.org.uk http://twitter.com/MuseumofLondon www.facebook.com www.scribd.com www.mymuseumoflondon.org.uk/blogs Before printing, please think about the environment -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Perian Sully Sent: 27 August 2010 00:49 To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] rss feeds today 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 _______________________________________________ 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/
