My post expressing my personal feed preference hit on a quiet weekend in the tech world, clearly. I noticed the post was the lead on Memeorandum by early this morning, and it stayed there until just recently. (I’m not kidding myself… Scoble’s link is what pumped up the volume.)
People feel strongly about this issue, as I do. I didn’t underline strongly enough that this is about my reading style. My preference is not an economic issue, nor do I avoid full-text feeds. I use two newsreaders regularly, Newsburst and NetNewsWire. Like many (most) of the hundreds (thousands?!) of RSS readers out in the wild now, both readers have several options for viewing… like Alice’s Restaurant, you can get anything you want. I’m a scanner and have things set up to accomodate my needs.
In general, I’m pretty happy that the people and publications I want to read have feeds, of any/all varieties. I think the idea of giving people choice (full/partial) is wonderful, but aren’t we all struggling to get people outside of the Memeorandum crowd to figure out what the orange buttons are? Now you want to offer two (or more) buttons? Less is more, perhaps?
Side note: this blog doesn’t have comments or TrackBacks enabled. I’m happy to reply to e-mail (jbr + domain name). During the long weekend, I did spend several hours on a long-overdue blog migration project. When complete, those features and other obvious gaps should be closed. I have some bugs to iron out (time zone of old posts, especially), but with luck, or maybe some help, I’ll be moving DNS (easy, but worrisome) and software platforms in the near future. I will blog with a warning message before I do something irrevocable. 😉