Comments on: What type of RSS newsfeeds do you serve?

By: ¿Fin de los medios de comunicación o momento de reinventar una industria?

¿Fin de los medios de comunicación o momento de reinventar una industria? — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:11:45 +0000

[...] y luego se repite el ciclo), o que no se esfuerza en enlazar otros medios ni ofrece sus feeds RSS completos por temor a perder visitas y caer en la trampa de una venta de publicidad hueca que nada aporta a los [...]

By: Más interacción y usabilidad para My 2 k-cents

Más interacción y usabilidad para My 2 k-cents — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:02:08 +0000

[...] 2. Artículos parciales / feeds completos: Continuando en el orden de los feeds, la navegación que realiza un usuario que visita una página y la que realiza una persona que lee contenidos a través de RSS o feeds, es muy distinta. Cuando alguien visita un sitio web por lo general explora diversas partes del sitio web para formarse una opinión o encontrar la información que busca, por lo tanto mostrar toda la información en portada puede hacer que la navegación sea un poco más densa. Sin embargo las personas que realizan sus lecturas de contenidos a través de feeds, ya conocen la temática del mismo, son lectores recurrentes y agradecen el contenido completo y no parcial. [...]

By: Los feeds de los medios - Blog de Pablo Mancini

Los feeds de los medios - Blog de Pablo Mancini — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:33:25 +0000

[...] visitas. El licuado generacional de la próxima década acabará con el asunto. El problema es el mientras tanto En: Periodismo digital, Nuevos medios, Asides — Enero 12, [...]

By: Pat Thornton

Pat Thornton — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:31:12 +0000

I’ll respond by explaining why I offer full feeds on my blog: I want maximum exposure.

Full feeds give me that. A full feed allows me to reach more readers. The more readers I have, the bigger the impact I have. Newspapers should always strive to have maximum impact.

The more people I reach, the more people who link to me via their blogs Twitter, Facebook and Digg accounts. When people link to me, the more traffic I ultimately get.

Here is the thing: even with my full feeds, you don’t get it all. You can’t see comments in the RSS feed for posts, (there is a separate comments feed) and you certainly can’t comment from an RSS reader. The people who want to be apart of my community (and the people I want to target most) have to navigate to my site anyway so they can comment.

People only comment when the content is compelling. My job then is to make sure I have compelling content and that I reach as many people as possible. That’s what full RSS feeds brings to my blog.

This means that every newspaper story should allow people to comment on the stories. That’s a big incentive for people to navigate from their RSS reader to your site. We need to offer people real reasons to navigate from an RSS reader to a Web site. Truncating stories and sentences is not only a bad reason, it’s also a good way to lose readers.

By: The RSS model | Zac Echola

The RSS model | Zac Echola — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:54:29 +0000

[...] some great discussion at editor on the verge regarding the full vs. partial feed [...]

By: Zac Echola

Zac Echola — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:36:57 +0000

The market has already changed. Newspapers stuck on making money via their sites haven’t changed.

They’re missing out not only on RSS market share, but potential new revenue streams. And they complain about online revenue not making up for losses in print revenues? Maybe they should stop protecting their sites the way they’re protecting their papers.

The whole design of the Web is meant to share information. It seems silly to force a business model that fights the fundamentals of the Internet’s architecture.

Page views and impressions are a dying model. There needs to be transition.

By: Etan

Etan — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:23:43 +0000

Zac, I appreciate that, and I tend to feel the same way. However, what I was pointing out was that at larger media organizations this tends to be a decision that is tightly coupled with the advertising business model, and therefore not simply something the Editors and Tech guys can play with. I think all RSS feeds should be full content, but the market needs to change for that to happen.

By: Chris Welle

Chris Welle — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:16:31 +0000

Why cant they [NYT] sell ads on their feeds? Push hard for feed marketing. Saying advertisers “don’t get it yet” is not an excuse. Get in front of this change now. You can continue to sell whatever it is you need — but move ahead. Full feed or not feeds WILL contain advertising and your advertisers will get it.