Partial feeds
Just a quick post which concerns anyone who reads my feed either in a feed aggregator or in Facebook. All of my posts from now on will be partial feeds, which means that you’ll get the first few words followed by [...]. If you use an RSS reader, you’ll have to click the link to read the rest. Facebook users, click “View original post” at the top of the note.
I know it bugs some people (sorry!) but I currently have no way to accurately monitor the number of people who read my blog, especially people who read it in Facebook. It’ll also let me see what kind of posts people are reading.
Right, I’m off to do my dissertation… 
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Saturday, January 13th, 2007 @ 5:57 pm
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January 13th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Hey dude — try Feedburner (http://www.feedburner.com/) to help you track your people through RSS. You might find that your readership actually falls by killing the full feeds… BTW, no images are showing up in them at all now :-\
January 13th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
Hey Meri,
Reason I need partial feeds is mainly for Facebook. It imports my blog as notes, and once they’re in there they’re separate from the RSS feed so however many people read it within Facebook, it only counts as 1 read. I think quite a lot of people read it but the only way to know is if they click the “View original post” link.
Ideally, what I want is a second, partial feed for use only with Facebook and a full feed for everyone else. Have tried various websites which convert and merge feeds, but none convert full feeds to partial. The one that does buggers the feed up and Facebook only imports the most recent post if I post more than one in quick succession (which I always do). The feed and blog stats in Wordpress give me good enough info on everyone except Facebook readers.
So basically, all I need is a second, partial feed. Does that make sense? Any ideas?
Guy
January 13th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
P.S. Have set it back to full feeds for the moment.
January 14th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
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