Migrating to Full RSS Feeds
After a poll and enlightening discussion over at ProBlogger on using full or partial feeds, I've decided to upgrade my RSS/Feedburner feed to full blog entries, for those of you who read directly in your feed reader. If you don't know what that means, then move along; nothing to see here. If that makes perfect sense to you but you have any trouble with the new feed, please let me know.
Dr. Pete
· Thursday, September 27Sorry, Peter; I glanced up at the corner of your site and saw Rogier's logo. Since I read both of your blogs, I completely forgot what site I was on. That's a bit embarrassing.
Since so many people use blog platforms, I found almost no guidance on how to build the RSS feed for full listings. It took some digging; one of those times where I start to wonder whether hand-coding my blog is a good idea.
Peter
· Friday, September 28Another bloging related usabibility thing that just crossed my mind is the use of full titles in the url as opposed to id's. Greg Scowen (used to run fusability.com) had a link to some research about it and apperently the best way to go is to use a date and blog title based urls. Robert Nyman also wrote about it (http://www.robertnyman.com/2007/03/16/the-importance-of-a-semantic-url/).
Dr. Pete
· Friday, September 28Title-based URLs are also good for search engine optimization, so it's a double win. I've pondered adding the dates; one of the problems with title only is the need to keep them unique over time.
Peter
· Thursday, September 27I am using full RSS feeds too but mine cuts off after "" in wordpress so I am not entirely sure whether it is usefull.
Oh, and by the way, I am Peter, not Rogier(www.achtentachtig.com), but don't feel bad about it, people make that mistake all the time and I am sure the company we are doing are internship at will make the same mistake, hehe.