Kansas City News Blog

CJ-
I see where you're coming from, but the truncated feed hardly includes two full sentences. The purpose of a partial feed is to draw people in and want them to click. This seems blatantly for page hits because no one is going to draw you into a post in a sentence and a half. If it's about ads, put them in your feed. How is someone stealing directly from your site different than stealing from a feed reader? Is annoying your regular readers worth the extra hit per post?

I come for Daily Briefs and read the rest of the content when I have some spare time. Now I will probably click through for Briefs and never read anything else.

Seriously, (the) Trevor should supply enough hits to fund this thing until the next round of covering election parties.

I really appreciate you taking the step to post a response. The reason we complained is that we generally enjoy the content on Pitch blogs and want to continue reading.

But asking us to "c'mon. Just click through to our site, OK?" demonstrates how little you know about the delivering content on the web. Clicks are everything to web users. Links drive more meaningful traffic; if you alienate bloggers, you ain't gonna get a ton of links.

There are plenty of posts, articles and anecdotes out there that attest to the value of enabling full feeds. It just seems a little reactionary and short sighted.

Thanks for listening, I'll shut up now. Probably for a long time.

What's ironic is the Wayward Blog steals mp3's (along w/ expensive bandwidth) from other blogs all the time.

You know you can advertise within RSS feeds right...?

ADs can be placed at the bottom of your posts.

WHEWWW!! IT is working on it, you guys! Only thing better would be if Human Resources were also on it.

Nothing quite makes you feel better than, "Your call is important to us...please continue to hold."

Meanwhile, all you RSS losers have to do is click a link. You know, do it yourself rather than lazily standing there with your hand out waiting for someone else to do it for you.

Any update on the "better solution?"