Entry #800

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Quick question: Is anyone out there reading this site using an RSS reader/aggregator? And if they are, would a full-text version of this site in RSS/RDF format be useful? (if you have no idea what I'm talking about, you can safely ignore this entire post)

Please leave comments, in, well, the comments.

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Not that this has anything to do with the actual subject of the post, but wouldn't it be cool if you could embed <$MTEntryPermalink$> tags in your post?

(yes, I tried it and it didn't work)

Well, if you count LJ as an RSS reader/aggregator, then yes, I am, and if you couldn't guess by my earlier requests to have as much text in the "summary" as possible, I'd rather have a full-text version to pull from. :)

Here's what they look like now (from LJ):
http://www.livejournal.com/users/rdf_paulf/114800.html

If you click the left-arrow you can see what earlier entries look like. The formatting sometimes gets screwed up, and links don't come through, but I'm not sure if that's a problem w/ LJ or with the feed (or a known limitation of RDF/RSS).

you can do somthing with MT tags in processed areas of content - but I TOTALLY forget how.

BTW, I think you guys were sitting very near where my father and I sat at Fenway in 1972.

hey wait! now I'M commenting on the worng post.

i like them short. i only use nnw to see that you've updated.

I try to read everything in SharpReader. A full-text feed would be nice.

i use a news aggregator at work for professional/current events stuff, so i don't read your site in it (i use my blogroll on my site to visit all my blog peeps). convoluted i know. whatever. my point is that i don't like full-text feeds in my aggregator. i like to see just enough to know what the post is about and click if i want to read the whole thing. otherwise the list just gets crazy and i'm scrolling through whole days-old posts i've already read.

funny. i think ernie the attorney (http://ernieattorney.typepad.com) was talking about this same topic a couple days ago.

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