Like many who choose to comment on any article online, we probably all use an RSS reader to read our articles.. Also, we probably all have some websites we will still visit everyday.
Perhaps there is some middle ground?
If a website insists on Partial Feeds, rather than just a couple of sentences, why not force an author to create a 500 character summarization of the entire article? In fact, you could summize it twice:
#1 Less than 140 characters inc short URL for Twitter retweets
#2 Less than 500 characters, including the Twitter retweet and the 'More' link.
If an author managed to summize there article into 500 characters, then I could scan that within my partial feed and decide "Is this worth me clicking through?" ... oh and if I do click through do NOT force me to watch some shit advert on the way in.
Problem is that most of Virgins customers are from the old NTL (Virgin took them over) ... it means they are on Cable. It would be difficult (but not impossible) to simply switch to BT.. Someone would have to install a phone line.
Perhaps there is a middle ground?
Like many who choose to comment on any article online, we probably all use an RSS reader to read our articles.. Also, we probably all have some websites we will still visit everyday.
Perhaps there is some middle ground?
If a website insists on Partial Feeds, rather than just a couple of sentences, why not force an author to create a 500 character summarization of the entire article? In fact, you could summize it twice:
#1 Less than 140 characters inc short URL for Twitter retweets
#2 Less than 500 characters, including the Twitter retweet and the 'More' link.
If an author managed to summize there article into 500 characters, then I could scan that within my partial feed and decide "Is this worth me clicking through?" ... oh and if I do click through do NOT force me to watch some shit advert on the way in.
Re: Virgin self-sacrifice
Problem is that most of Virgins customers are from the old NTL (Virgin took them over) ... it means they are on Cable. It would be difficult (but not impossible) to simply switch to BT.. Someone would have to install a phone line.
Who knows how to encrypt my .torrents ? ;)
I only wish the Guardian would have let me comment on that rant at that left wing piece of s**t so called journalism.. living in a dream world!
The bloke who wrote it is a luddite
Good article though!