Full feed, half feed for your RSS?

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This is a problem that I have struggled with. I read most blogs from Google reader which shows up on my iGoogle page. I hate bloggers who give excerpt because it is a chore to visit blogs, especially when our shitty broadband is so slow. I also hate leaving my footprints on their site through MyBlogLog, Nuffnang and other social community sites. I like to be invisible. :P

Before I go on, I just discover that I can actually turned off Nuffnang tracking cookie. Nice, now I can lurk without others know I have been to their blogs. You can make the choice under your Profile page.

Ok, I hate people giving half feeds. And that’s why I struggle with this issue of providing only summary of my RSS. So many sites are scraping contents so I hate seeing my complete post on other’s site.

So, what’s your preference?

Full feed or summary of your blog post on RSS?

Post Author: lilian

6 thoughts on “Full feed, half feed for your RSS?”

Mr. Rajawang

(April 1, 2008 - 7:32 pm)

I think you can also make yourself invi in MyBlogLog..just click your pic and hide it. If you don’t already know it la.. :)

ChanRaymond

(April 1, 2008 - 8:59 pm)

But you also use half feed on your chanlilian.net leh..

I also read from igoogle. Kinda lazy to go to the blog itself to read lah.

So FULL feed for me :)

pablopabla

(April 1, 2008 - 10:40 pm)

I am on half feed wor….how ah? Many readers say they are lazy to click to read full feed. Dilemma also :( If full feeds, then my blogreview very long page liao…

lilian

(April 1, 2008 - 11:46 pm)

pablo – Yalor, I also swing here and there. I sometimes, go half, sometimes full. Full feeds mean we are feeding a lot of rss scrapers. So, don’t know to please ourselves (from not getting scrape so much) or please our subscribers.

raymond – Boh pien lor, sometimes, come by and make up the numbers in traffic lor. Cos I see so many scrappers so I go back to summary for a few days. Hope they gave up and then, I put back.

rajawang – Yeah, I had done that for MyBlogLog and only realised I can do the same for NN.

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(April 3, 2008 - 12:13 pm)

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Lorna

(April 8, 2008 - 8:34 pm)

Please please please serve full feeds. Most of the time I will skip excerpt feeds even when they sound enticing, that’s how I manage my time reading and blog hopping.

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