{"id":502,"date":"2010-03-11T14:41:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T18:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/?p=502"},"modified":"2010-03-11T14:41:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T18:41:35","slug":"on-excerpt-vs-full-content-rss-feeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/on-excerpt-vs-full-content-rss-feeds\/","title":{"rendered":"On excerpt vs. full content RSS feeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/438103070\">True wisdom<\/a> from Marco Arment this week:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We don\u2019t deserve anything. Publishers can do whatever they want. If you don\u2019t like it, don\u2019t send them nasty emails or browse their sites with ad-blockers: just don\u2019t support them. Don\u2019t read their content, don\u2019t link to them, and don\u2019t talk about them. Since money\u2019s not usually involved, vote with your attention and read elsewhere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kungfugrippe.com\/post\/439434786\/entitled-to-care\">Merlin Mann tries to respond to it<\/a>, but instead responds to everyone else&#8217;s arguments about why full feeds are better. But, I guess if you call something a straw man, the only way you &#8220;win&#8221; is by attacking some other position. What gets me though is this curiously stalker-ish final paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(I\u2019d also mention, just in passing, Marco, that your two primary businesses I\u2019m aware of rely very heavily on all that expensive content being freely available and munge-able. A magazine article that can\u2019t be reblogged will never make it onto Tumblr, and a more (theoretically) monetizable world of teaser-only websites and feeds turns Instapaper into a beautifully-implemented PR aggregator)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ad hominem, Merlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True wisdom from Marco Arment this week: We don\u2019t deserve anything. Publishers can do whatever they want. If you don\u2019t like it, don\u2019t send them nasty emails or browse their sites with ad-blockers: just don\u2019t support them. Don\u2019t read their content, don\u2019t link to them, and don\u2019t talk about them. Since money\u2019s not usually involved,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}