Partial Feeds are the worst kind of feed there is to subscribe to. They drive me insane.
Fortunately, a few bloggers (in my blogroll, that is) are seeing the light and changing to full text feeds. Recently Michael J. Totten changed to full text feeds and I read more of his stuff now as a result.
Steve’s post at the Ransom Thoughts blog ( found via Scoble’s link blog) has the exact same thoughts about this. He goes a bit further than me and says he’s unsubscribing from partial feeds.
Feeds are there for the express purpose of giving people easier access to your information, not baiting links to drive up the PageRank and roll in the AdWords revenue.
Remember the blogosphere is a community with a vast amount of information contained in its many pages (and feeds). Since it is a community, a single blog survives only by the grace of others that link to it.
So be nice to people when it comes to full text feeds – let them read your stuff with as little effort as possible – it’ll help your blog in the long run.
The first comment to Steve’s post puts it best:
Life’s too short for [a] clickthrough.
Random Musings 