Chris Pirillo Goes Full-Text
I’ve been reading Chris Pirillo’s blog for a while now.
More recently, I finally grokked RSS and have been using Bloglines in a major way.
FeedDemon is great, but I browse the web on at least three computers. (Home Desktop, Laptop, & My Work PC)
Bloglines makes it easy to read your feeds from anywhere with ‘Net access. The only thing I dislike, though, is that it seems to have trouble remembering which items I’ve viewed on other machines. I’m not sure if this is by design. It doesn’t make sense to me… If I’ve already viewed entries on one PC, why show them as unread on another PC?
Now, where were we…
Scoble and a few others have been bitching lately about how Chris Pirillo’s RSS feeds weren’t full-text. His site is ad supported … so his RSS feeds were just brief summaries that linked to the full posts w/ embedded AdSense ads, etc.
Well, full-text RSS feeds are back over on Chris’ blog.
I think this is a smart move on his part… Sure, you want to monetize your site. But you also want to provide a great service to your users. When full-text becomes the norm, and you’re still doing summaries, it really makes them think, “is this really worth it, that I have to click-thru and all?”
There will be a day (it may not be that far off, either), when AdSense for RSS or some other means will provide a way to monetize full-text RSS feeds.
Until then, I think it’s just one of those things that you’ll have to do (provide full-text RSS, that is), just to keep up with the proverbial Joneses. That … and to keep guys like Scoble from bitching about your summary feeds.
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