By C.J. JANOVY
Hey, loyal Plog readers: Some of you are unhappy about our new truncated RSS feeds. We had to start doing that because other Web sites were stealing our stuff. If people steal our stuff, then we get fewer page views, and fewer page views means less advertising, and less advertising means less journalism. We're sorry for the inconvenience, but c'mon. Just click through to our site, OK?
Thanks for reading and thanks for your comments.
C.J. Janovy
Editor
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"Thanks for the feedback, everyone. Our Web department promises they're working on a better solution."
Still working on the solution?
WHEWWW!! IT is working on it, you guys! Only thing better would be if Human Resources were also on it.
Nothing quite makes you feel better than, "Your call is important to us...please continue to hold."
Meanwhile, all you RSS losers have to do is click a link. You know, do it yourself rather than lazily standing there with your hand out waiting for someone else to do it for you.
Thanks for the feedback, everyone. Our Web department promises they're working on a better solution.
cj
You know you can advertise within RSS feeds right...?
ADs can be placed at the bottom of your posts.
The Pitch is blocked at my work by the network filter. If I wanted to respond to an article, I have to connect to my home machine and then post a reply.
It was great having the full content in my RSS feed as it wasn't blocked. Now I'm looking at 2 lines of information in my feed, copying the link, connecting to my home machine, spawning a browser and reading content. I can't see that happening with any frequency, as much as I have enjoyed Charles and Owen's postings in FatCity.
I'll stay subscribed to the feeds for now and hope that one day they return to their full glory.
What's ironic is the Wayward Blog steals mp3's (along w/ expensive bandwidth) from other blogs all the time.
i agree. I like the RSS updates to at least let me know whether I want to click. Can we get a paragraph at least?
I really appreciate you taking the step to post a response. The reason we complained is that we generally enjoy the content on Pitch blogs and want to continue reading.
But asking us to "c'mon. Just click through to our site, OK?" demonstrates how little you know about the delivering content on the web. Clicks are everything to web users. Links drive more meaningful traffic; if you alienate bloggers, you ain't gonna get a ton of links.
There are plenty of posts, articles and anecdotes out there that attest to the value of enabling full feeds. It just seems a little reactionary and short sighted.
Thanks for listening, I'll shut up now. Probably for a long time.
I'm turning off RSS as a result of this change. The whole point of RSS is to view content without having to spend the time navigating to it.
Seriously, (the) Trevor should supply enough hits to fund this thing until the next round of covering election parties.
I imagine Chimpo�s post being in the voice of Luke Skywalker when he said, �I was going over to Tosche Station to pick up some power converters.�
Uncle Owen basically bitch slapped him and made him polish R2D2�s dome.
CJ-
I see where you're coming from, but the truncated feed hardly includes two full sentences. The purpose of a partial feed is to draw people in and want them to click. This seems blatantly for page hits because no one is going to draw you into a post in a sentence and a half. If it's about ads, put them in your feed. How is someone stealing directly from your site different than stealing from a feed reader? Is annoying your regular readers worth the extra hit per post?
I come for Daily Briefs and read the rest of the content when I have some spare time. Now I will probably click through for Briefs and never read anything else.
Yeah...and would it kill you to click an advertising link or two? These folks run on a budget that is leaner than McCain's victory margin in Missouri. So, fork them some click lurve, would ya?
I cannot believe it�I knew this day would come�I finally agree with CJ on something. Could it be from the optimism flourishing everywhere? This optimism contagion from Obama�s election spreads faster than any pandemic model ever predicted. I never woulda thunk it.
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