Tim Hibbard

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John Jantsch over at Duct Tape Marketing (Kansas City local) recently went full text RSS. And it's about time. He posts good stuff, but I rarely read it because it was a pain to click though to the web site. Personally, I usually don't read blogs that aren't full text, but I did still subscribe to John because he was local and he had said that he was going to look into full text.

Mike posted a comment over on John's post about going full text that said (among other things)

"being concerned about your readers sounds noble, but it's really not"
"full feeds are really just a slow death for a blog"

I couldn't disagree more. His main point was that full text will cut down on ad revenue. I think it is great that good bloggers get rewarded by ad revenue, but I don't think the money should drive you to blog. To me, a good blogger shares their knowledge in an entertaining way. Worry about entertaining and educating your readers, the money will be on it's way.


posted @ Saturday, February 11, 2006 5:39 PM |

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Gravatar # re: Full text rss = death for blog??
Posted by Mike on 2/12/2006 12:57 PM
Tim,

Since you weren't kind enough to show us that you had taken the discussion to you blog, I'm glad I clicked thru to find it. Something I could not have done had I been reading a feed.

Feeds don't allow commenters, you know. They kill the converstion, not add to it.

Also, blog systems like John uses are also bad for commenters, especially since he wants to approve every comment and takes way too long to do so, thereby killing the community.

I did a post at my blog, refuting your point and welcome your participation over there.

http://simplenomics.com/full-feeds-or-excerpts-for-blogs/

Thanks for having an opinion.
Gravatar # re: Full text rss = death for blog??
Posted by Mike on 2/12/2006 1:07 PM
Tim,

Case in point: Had I just read your feed and not clicked thru, I would not have seen that cool hat in your photo.

I wouldn't have known where you were and couldn't have told you that I lived in Wichita for 3 years..probably before you were born !

I sold several million $$$ worth of product while there, agian before you were born.

Also would n't know how close you are to a couple of golf courses and that I'm gonna call you if I ever get out there again.

If you do play golf, you might enjoy my blog at http://www.travellinggolfer.com

Nice ad for SnagIt, which I use and I wouldn't have seen in your feed.
Gravatar # re: Full text rss = death for blog??
Posted by Robert Scoble on 2/13/2006 9:53 AM
I won't subscribe to a blog that doesn't have full text feeds. And I won't read them unless someone who has full text links to them.

So, if you call that death for your blog, well, that's cool.
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