Comments on: Feed Fatigue

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Alas, a blog » Blog Archive » Link Farm & Open Thread #42 — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:01:37 +0000

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By: engtech

engtech — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 04:33:49 +0000

Full agreement on the “full feeds plz” band wagon. One of the sites I read is horrible for it. He’s had excerpts that were literally missing one sentence after the “read more for full post”.

By: Barry

Barry — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 02:43:17 +0000

“If the RSS only offers me a little bit of content, I don’t feel obliged to offer full attention”
Have to agree on that one, feeds with a short reference to what’s on the site. I’m interested in ones content, subscribe, I’m the lazy kind, don’t add a third click, make me open another window. If you must, place an add in the feed. Lorelle on WordPress stays in though : )

By: justme

justme — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 06:21:42 +0000

Ahem. See how late I’m commenting? It’s because this blog is one of my scan once in a while and try not to think about all the great stuff you missed.

Definitely have feed fatigue. But I do keep up with more sites than before, just not the same ones. I’ve given up manually checking websites that don’t provide RSS. Handling the ones with RSS varies.

I have 148 feeds in my news reader. I actually read every single post on about 4 of them; I have to refresh regularly because they post about 10 times to 20 times a day. I skim about 12-14 of the others daily.

I bounce through the rest about once a week to biweekly. And rarely, oh so rarely, do I click through to sites, like this one, that only excerpt into the RSS. If the RSS only offers me a little bit of content, I don’t feel obliged to offer full attention (i.e. opening up multiple browser windows/tabs).

I do wish the sites I read regularly wouldn’t post so much. For one thing, they keep adding “guest bloggers” who cross post from their own blog. If I wanted to read those other blogs regularly I’d subscribe to them. I also tend to abandon blogs with poorly formed html so that their site breaks when I do visit in my standards compliant browser.

By: Shawn Blanc

Shawn Blanc — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 05:00:01 +0000

This is a great point. At first I thought that I needed to keep daily posts in fear of losing people as soon as fresh content wasn’t available when they looked, but lately I’ve been letting a few posts sit and I’ve actually seen a lot more comments and interaction take place.