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Full text rss = death for blog??

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.

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Print | posted on Saturday, February 11, 2006 5:39 PM |

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# re: Full text rss = death for blog??

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.
2/13/2006 9:53 AM | Robert Scoble
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