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How Much RSS? (#993)
Posted: 2/4/2003; 11:57 AM by Terry Frazier
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Jim McGee likes full posts in his aggregator -- but I don't; Forcing what I want on (potential) readers of this weblog cramps their ability to use info in the way that's best for them -- which is bad; I want multiple RSS feeds:
  1. one with headlines only
  2. one with some arbitrary character limit -- e.g. 500 chars
  3. one full feed
then the reader can choose.

Why can't I get that in Radio without having to be a programmer?

Confessions of an RSS bigot.

Yes, I'm an RSS bigot as well. And yes, I know that I could create my own feed using something like RSS Distiller as John Robb points out. But as my own support staff, I scarcely have time to stay current with the material that already comes into my news aggregator.  the time to figure out how to parse a site's html and generate a reasonable feed generally isn't worth it. [...]

Agreed. It's still too damned hard to create useful RSS feeds with scrapers. Unless you know regex it's a really frustrating, hunt-and-peck experience.

[...] It's about managing my poor, limited, attention which needs all the help it can get. For my selfish purposes, the more material that flows into my news aggregator the better. And better still if I can get full posts instead of teasers. I've yet to find a blog post that read better in context than it did in my plain aggregator. [...] [McGee's Musings]
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