web Open letter to bloggers who use Blogspot and Typepad

Posted March 4, 2007 • Comments Off on Open letter to bloggers who use Blogspot and Typepad

Dear bloggers who use Blogspot and Typepad,

You have an option in your blog’s setup about whether to have a FULL-TEXT FEED or not. If you choose, for some reason, not to have a full-text feed, I am going to stop reading your blog, no matter how much I enjoyed it. I don’t care that you think readers who visit your site in a browser are more valuable than readers who visit your site in an RSS reader. I’ve got news for you: lots of readers who use RSS use Adblock too, and you aren’t making any money off us anyway. Just put the whole post in the feed already.

This is especially going out to those of you—yes, Fug Girls, this means you—who had full-text feeds for years and have suddenly stopped, and to those of you—hi, Malls of America—whose blog feeds inexplicably switch back and forth between full-text and non-.

I’m just over it. Give me RSS or give me nada.

Love,
Elaine