RSS contents

Hey you! I like your blog. I’d love to read it more often. But here’s the problem. I read about 200 blogs and Web sites each day, and I can only keep up with that pace by using a news aggregator.

You provide an RSS feed that I can use in the aggregator, and that’s great. It shows that you understand the power behind using multiple distribution channels for your writing. But when your feed only has the titles of your entries, or only the first 20 words of an entry, what’s the point? You wouldn’t publish an email newsletter and only include entry titles, would you?

Please put your whole entry in your RSS. Or at least write your own summaries. With only a title or the first 20 words of a entry, I have to visit your site just to decide if I want to read the entry. And that makes your feed useless. And useless feeds get read less often.

This also goes for you, and you, and you.