[MCN-L] rss feeds today

2010-08-27 Thread Mosoddik, Bilkis
nting, please think about the environment -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] 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 pr

[MCN-L] rss feeds today

2010-08-26 Thread Perian Sully
innesota 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

[MCN-L] rss feeds today

2010-08-26 Thread Ari Davidow
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

[MCN-L] rss feeds today

2010-08-26 Thread Ari Davidow
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

[MCN-L] rss feeds today

2010-08-26 Thread Hoover, Joseph
ation Department 345 W. Kellogg Blvd. 55102 (651) 259-3461 joe.hoover at mnhs.org www.mnhs.org/lhs -Original Message- From: Richard Urban [mailto:rjur...@illinois.edu] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 1:57 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] rss feeds today H

[MCN-L] rss feeds today

2010-08-26 Thread Richard Urban
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 wit

[MCN-L] rss feeds today

2010-08-25 Thread Dianne Reuby
I produce the "truncated" feeds - and almost all the feeds I read are produced the same way. Only one of the many I subscribe to includes the full post in the feed. This is probably a hangover from dial-up, but if your feed has an international audience, it's good to remember that many places arou

[MCN-L] rss feeds today

2010-08-25 Thread Ari Davidow
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