{"id":1030,"date":"2007-10-06T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2007-10-06T19:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/10\/06\/feedreader-questions\/"},"modified":"2007-10-06T14:00:36","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T19:00:36","slug":"feedreader-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/10\/06\/feedreader-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Feedreader questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I have some questions for y&#8217;all.<\/p>\n<p>First, why do you truncate your blog&#8217;s feed?  It seems to be the vast majority of the &#8220;personal&#8221; bloggers I read truncate their feeds, while the majority of the business bloggers use a full feed.  I&#8217;ve seen lots of debates on which is better, but I&#8217;m curious as to why YOU do it.<\/p>\n<p>Care to take part in my highly scientific poll on the matter?  If you have more to say, you can always leave a comment, too!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><script language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polldaddy.com\/p\/115409.js\"> <\/script> <noscript> <a href =\"http:\/\/www.polldaddy.com\" >polls<\/a> &#8211; <a href =\"http:\/\/www.polldaddy.com\/poll.asp?p=115409\" >Take Our Poll<\/a> <\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>And for those of you simply reading feeds instead of publishing them, what do you think?  Does it matter to you whether the author publishes the full post or just a snippet?<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, I leave the full feed simply because that&#8217;s what I prefer when I&#8217;m reading.  I&#8217;ve had some issues with scraping, and had one site shut down for using my content without attribution, but now that I&#8217;ve figured out how to add an attribution tag through feedburner that says &#8220;This item is from Postcards from the Mothership&#8221; I haven&#8217;t had any problems.<\/p>\n<p>And now, a more technical question for the Web savvy among you.  In the feed reader, I notice that some blog titles have an avatar or icon beside them.  Occasionally, this even appears beside the URL in the address bar or beside my favourites in IE.<\/p>\n<p>How do you <em>do <\/em>that?  How do you get your little icony avatar thing to be picked up by the feed readers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I have some questions for y&#8217;all. First, why do you truncate your blog&#8217;s feed? It seems to be the vast majority of the &#8220;personal&#8221; bloggers I read truncate their feeds, while the majority of the business bloggers use a full feed. I&#8217;ve seen lots of debates on which is better, but I&#8217;m curious as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/10\/06\/feedreader-questions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Feedreader questions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-asides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}