End of Excerpts

Posted on January 6, 2006
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It is done. I no longer follow any more RSS feeds that excerpt their content. The minimum ante to the game of my attention is having the full text in there. Life is too short and my time is too precious for otherwise. For years I’ve [...]

PS – for those of you who have contacted me, this is a joke. Do not adjust your subscriptions.

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    9 Responses to “End of Excerpts”

    1. matt on January 6th, 2006 2:39 pm

      Nicely done ;)

    2. Adam on January 6th, 2006 2:58 pm

      *rimshot*

    3. Brooklyn Bluesman on January 6th, 2006 7:35 pm

      Ooh pretty damn sly. You add meaning to the term “stealth.”

    4. Ken Nelson on January 6th, 2006 8:06 pm

      Where does the time go? It’s April Fools’ Day already?
      Had me goin’ there for a bit.

      -k-

    5. Tim on January 6th, 2006 10:33 pm

      Dave: Thanks for the laugh; keep ‘em coming.

    6. Alex Barnett blog on January 7th, 2006 2:54 am

      Bye bye excerpts.

      Sorry, I’m bringing up an old chestnut again.
      Dave Slusher has reminded me of something I must…

    7. matt on January 8th, 2006 1:01 pm

      I don’t really mind exerpts, but it’s the feeds with [No Description] that really twist my melon.

    8. Halvard Halvorsen on January 9th, 2006 6:30 pm

      But why on earth should feeds have a description?

      If you got a description, then most readers will display the description instead of the article. You then have to select the article again …

      This is not what I want. If I select an article in my RSS-reader I want to see the whole bloody article on the first mouseclick. Not an excerpt, not a description.
      Show me the whole article and I myself will decide when to stop reading. Descriptions and excerpts only have a place for long articles (say 1000+) lines and for special cases (like a podcast).

    9. PJ Cabrera on January 10th, 2006 12:44 am

      He he. Had me for a few sec (long enough for my vision to scroll down and read the warning)

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