Sometimes it's fun to just sit back and watch the fur fly... However I find myself a little biased in the latest furball. Richard Grimes posted some scathing criticism about .NET. Then Dan Fernandez posted this response. I have to say that Dan's response was quite fair and balanced and didn't really come across as a childish “did not! did too!” kind of article. What is cool is that he mentioned Delphi along side C/C++ and VB!
Allen,
ReplyDeleteI use NewsGator with Outlook to read blogs. But when I look at yours you only give one line or two in your RSS and I have to click on the link to read the full text. Any chance you could put the whole text in the RSS?
Alot of other bloggers do and it does make it easier to read.
-- Robert
Sheesh, and I thought the 64bit vitriol in non-tech was interesting :)
ReplyDeleteRobert,
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that RSS readers just sit there and poll the feed. This give me no information about whether or not anyone is actually *reading* the content. By simply following the link to get to the article, I know that it was actually viewed and not simply stuffed into an RSS queue that may never actually get read. I was including the full article text but I did notice a marked drop in page views when I did that. Danny does the same thing for the same reason... although he looks much more closely at page stats and is making noise to get .Text to gather even more data.
Of course, this way you don't get stats on how many people unsubscribe from your feed because it's not full content... a la Scoble. :)
ReplyDeleteAllen,
ReplyDeleteYeah I understand the reasoning and I see your point.
I don't know how everyone else reads their blogs but I will typically read or glance over everything that comes thru RSS. In cases like yours where there is only a short synopsis, I'll only click thru if I find it interesting enough to go the extra click.
So using your model I guess it will be fairly accurate since I'll only click thru to read if it catches my interest.
On the other hand, I really appreciate some of the .NET blogs I subscribe to that have full text because it becomes a resource for me and is very easy to search thru when I need to look up something later on.
-- Robert
I see your point on the whole "page view" thing. I look at it a bit differently, though. Everything you write, I read, so just add one to your "I know someone read this bucket" every time you get an RSS hit, and the math should work out. :-)
ReplyDeleteDan
I gotta side with Scoble and Miser on this one, partial feeds just don't do it for me.
ReplyDeleteWhen did I become Scoble? Forgot me alrady Steve? :-)
ReplyDelete-- Robert
Allen,
ReplyDeleteIt disallows me to read this off-line or without hassle (the layout of the actual web-page makes it really unreadable in a regular browser, and going through Lynx each and every time...). Which probably means I won't read it at all.
--jeroen
Thanks to the partial posts problem, I usually end up *not* reading them, as now I have to find them so much interesting as to overcome my inertia, stop my "speed-reading" mode, and go online (I let my rss reader gather everything while doing other stuff, disconnect, and then read the feeds.) Besides, I can't use them as reference.
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