Tue, August 31st, 2004 by Brandon Stone
Someone asked me why we didn't syndicate the entire blog post in our RSS feed. Couldn't really think of a good reason why not, so I flipped the switch to make the full entry available. (Hopefully, it worked.)
Let me know if you have any preferences either way.
August 31st, 2004 at 8:08 am
Speaking of Syndication -- I'd like to know what tool people use to grab RSS feeds -- I use a Mac -- so something which will work under OS X would be great...
August 31st, 2004 at 8:30 am
Bob- NetNewsWire (http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/) works great for OS X. It's my RSS reader of choice! Also, there's a RSS reader extension for Firefox that works pretty well.
August 31st, 2004 at 8:39 am
So now that I look at it, the summary-sized "description" isn't replaced with the full-sized entry... it just gets added on in addition.
That's good. Best of both worlds.
August 31st, 2004 at 9:33 am
I like full feeds myself... Is there a reason you can't make both available?
August 31st, 2004 at 10:22 am
Timsamoff, they're both available in the same feed now.
One part of the feed is the "description". This was always there. It contains just the first several characters of the blog entry.
Another part of the feed is the "content". I just added this, as of today. It contains the entire blog entry.
Hopefully your RSS reader will let you choose which one you'd like to view.
August 31st, 2004 at 10:44 am
Interesting... my reader (NetNewsWire) seems to just default to displaying the text in the "content" field... which is fine with me. I like seeing the entire entry.
August 31st, 2004 at 11:56 am
I love the full feed. I was always frustrated by the lack of the entire feed, but now you've fixed it! Thank you!!
August 31st, 2004 at 12:20 pm
Wow, that was fast! Thanks for the change.
I can't recommend Newsgator enough. My favorite feature is that I don't have to be running yet another program. Outlook is always open anyhow.
August 31st, 2004 at 1:22 pm
The web service Bloglines is great, great, great. Sure, you lose a little for it being a web app, but you can use it in multiple locations seamlessly.
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