here it is again. I read so many blogs regularly that for sanity’s sake I use an RSS reader, so I can get all my content in one place, constantly updating. It is the way to go. So you might imagine that my need to go to the individual sites is obviated. Wrong. Some sites don’t include the entire contents of posts in the RSS feed. Instead, they include an excerpt. Which means that after the first x words of the post, I can’t read it unless I physically go to the website. This sucks. It totally throws me off my rhythm, requires me to manually track what I’ve read in the RSS reader, and is just plain inefficient. VodkaPundit, one of my favorite blogs, does this RSS excerpting, and it just drives me nuts. Why can’t everyone just put entire posts in their RSS feeds? The world would be so much a better place. Help me out, right?
And while we’re on the subject, what’s with sites that don’t even offer RSS feeds? James Lileks’ The Bleat, another of my favorite sites, does not offer a feed. What the hell?