Comments on: What’s the point of blogging when there’s no RSS?

By: Matthias

Matthias — Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:56:24 +0000

Timothy Appnel suggests we should offer a choice of feeds: http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2002/11/19/rssfeedquality.html?page=2

Of course some people will take this to an extreme and offer special feeds for every aspect of their online activity…

By: David Rosam

David Rosam — Fri, 08 Aug 2003 15:25:34 +0000

Hi Matthias

I think it’s a personal thing – some people hate some RSS feeds that supply the full text, as they prefer to scan the headlines and the first few words!

You can’t please all of the people all of the time, I guess!

By: Matthias Gutfeldt

Matthias Gutfeldt — Fri, 08 Aug 2003 10:42:16 +0000

Your posting was the first hit when I was looking for “RSS what’s the point?”.

The plain text information snippets and headlines make sense to me: I can quickly scan them for items of interest.

But the next step doesn’t make sense to me: In order to get more information and read the whole article, I usually have to get the webpage (or fire it up in my browser, depending on software). I do get the article, but it comes complete with navigation, blogrolls, layout, advertising – basically the whole traditional webpage shebang!

This is a waste, and I wonder what’s the point? In my opinion it would be more sensible to offer the complete article in this new and efficient format, and then provide -as an option- a link to the webpage.

But I guess as an RSS newbie I must be missing something.

Matthias