i do not understand why a news site would not have an #RSS feed of their latest headlines.
you don't have to give your content away if you don't want to. but you cannot bitch & moan about #facebook or #twitter cannibalizing your readership in their fascist gated communities when you've turned your back on web standards and the open web.
@blogdiva I wish I could boost this 100x. Every morning, I read the news with my news reader app (Feedly). The papers that have crappy, unreliable RSS feeds don’t get read. I subscribe to the ones that I know will show up. #rss
You can't force ads on consumers with RSS. Won't gain forced revenue generation. That'll never fit our business model. Of course we'll get rid of that."
@lupus_blackfur@blogdiva@campuscodi OTOH, all those deep-pocket media outlets have to do is wait until we're gone because we're not so good at marketing freely available content, or #RSS readers
@blogdiva I understand it perfectly. The world is modelled on cruelty and without the forethought of publications becoming truly public goods. The world of business will continue to disappoint until we threaten their existence in a way that matters to them.
HEADLINES @griotspeak@erik it's just the headlines am asking for. not even a summary. give me a frigging headline.
i visit waaaaaaay more websites, several times a day thru my RSS reader. not once if i don't check my news reader first... NOT EVEN IF I SEE IT HERE. i bookmark more of the news posted that catch my eye here.
but if i read a headline & a summary? you will get my hits. and if i post onhere, am also giving them traffic.
Honestly, I don't even want the article in my news feed. Just a headline and maybe the first line of the article which will be enough information to let me know if I want to read more
@xorn@blogdiva@griotspeak@erik ideally I want the publication to be clear from the feed as well as the timestamp of the article (so if I’m looking at my rss feeds I know which is the latest post in the case of an ongoing story) and often it would be nice to know the author (especially if the feed has “opinion pages” articles mixed into it - frequently I won’t want to read the latest op ed published by the WaPo or the nytimes as they publish a lot of crap in the op ed pages.
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