Friday, April 1st, 2005
RSS - updated
I’m probably one of the last people to discover RSS. It is very cool, in that you don’t have to reload a page to see new posts. I don’t quite understand how this technology works, but it synchs up to whatever website of interest and informs you when there is anything new! It’s awesome. And it’s very helpful when reading blogs, for new posts.
I don’t know if viewing/reading the post in RSS will register as a new visit to the site counter (I would not think so), so in a way, it’s good for both the reader and the blogger. The reader can choose to go to the actual blog and make a comment if s/he wishes, but when there isn’t anything clever to say, then s/he doesn’t. And since this does not register as a new visit - if the reader does not leave a comment, the blogger wouldn’t even know anyone was reading and would not feel neglected when it’s showing 200 visits but only 1 comment was left behind… because it would not show 200 visits…
Is that how it works?
However, not all of you have your RSS turned on. I was wondering if it’s too much to ask that you have it turned on? To full page/post view, instead of the first paragraph or the first 250 words?
This will not only have the aforementioned advantage on both sides, it will also save readers a lot of time. Which we all know is valuable, regardless of what’s going on in your life.
So, what do you say friends?
*** updated ***
Seems like it’s a good idea. But, does it prevent some from making the extra effort to put a comment or two in those near and dear to their hearts?
This remains to be determined.
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To turn RSS on blogger, go to “change setting”, click on “settings” tab, and then click on “site feed”. Select “yes” for publish site feed, and “full” for descriptions. Hit “save settings” and then republish the indexes, or the entire blog if you wish.
I don’t have typepad, and probably never will, so I don’t know how it is done on typepad. Or any other blogging sites.
on Friday, April 1st, 2005 at 2:00 pm:
I support this request wholeheartedly.
How else could I keep track of 228 blogs?
on Friday, April 1st, 2005 at 8:13 pm:
I love rss. I get all my feeds into my mailbox and I love it. It makes hospital stays so much more fun!
unfortunately, not a lot of people activate the full rss and some blogging places don’t even support it. Which sucks.
I have found that it does make me increasingly lazier by not visiting the sites to comment. And that makes me feel bad. The price of technology!
on Saturday, April 2nd, 2005 at 8:32 am:
I will turn mine on only if you tell me how. I seriously have no idea how to do it.
on Saturday, April 2nd, 2005 at 12:54 pm:
Hmmm.
JenP raised a good point.
Is this why I (and some others) are not getting much comments??
Maybe RSS isn’t such a great idea after all, from the blogger’s point of view?–>