Full vs. Partial Feeds
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Dwight Silverman of the Houston Chroncile posted a blog entry yesterday citing a Scoble message regarding Microsoft’s lack off RSS feeds. The point was to say that Microsoft is clueless for not providng RSS feeds for all of their sites.
So, for the first time in my life (really) I decided to post a comment on his blog. The message was:
Clueless? Careful... glass houses and all. Not providing an RSS feed is only slightly below providing a useless partial feed...
Well. That sure started something. After calling my point of view a “pointless geek religion” and calling me a “feed snob” I decided to give up, seeing as how the conversation really was not going anywhere. But not, of course, before sending one last final comment:
Referring to one’s point of view as a “pointless geek religion” is an insult no matter how you slice it. So I am sorry if I took your comment about being a snob the wrong way after the first volley. The whole “discussion” started when you quoted Schoble on the necessity of RSS feeds. To me that indicates he is some sort of authority on the subject in your eyes. I wonder what he would have to say on this topic…
From Schoble’s blog on 05/25/2005: “Yes, Tris Hussey I'm unsubscribing from Chris Pirillo's and any other feed that isn't full text. I'm tired of reading feeds that treat me badly. I have more than 1,300 full text feeds. There's one or two exceptions. The New York Times. CNET. Slashdot. But, sorry, Chris, I'll visit your site once in a while or whenever one of the bloggers that I read tells me you've written something interesting (which is quite often).”
I suppose that makes him our honorary high-priest.
That was the end of my participation in the “conversation” – or so I thought. Then a new entry appears in my Bloglines which read:
Full vs. partial RSS feeds
By Dwight on RSS
In case you're missing it, there's an interesting exchange going on in the comments for the "Cool, yet RSS-clueless entry from yesterday. Click on the above link, then start with the first comment from Russell H. and read down. Please...
So I click over to the new entry, which simply links me to the old entry, where I find that my final comments were not posted. You see, all comments to the blog have to be personally approved by Mr. Silverman before they will appear on the site. And of course, he chose not to approve my final message. So I thought I would post it here just in case there is an overalp of readership I’d like people to know that I have been cencsored for making a valid point.
UPDATE: 4:20pm CST
So the comments have been posted... thank you, Dwight. He said it was just because he was too busy at the time... I guess I jumped the gun a little there. That's certainly never happened before.
posted by Russell @ 2:48 PM,
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