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By: Derek

Derek — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:24:50 +0000

Loved the list Sue – lots of food for thought here. A comment about the full text RSS – my 5 cents worth on this is that I believe there’s a lot to learn in terms of how we construct our topic sentences that could make the use of feeds more productive. I tend to agree with Daniel about the ideal use of RSS feeds being to enable you to skim a lot of feeds in a short time. Notwithstanding your comment about gems being buried further down, I think the issue is one of education and the developing literacy of blogs that might (hopefully) see blog writers become more creative and focused in what they include in their topic sentences.

By: mrsolson

mrsolson — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:20:57 +0000

Well! What more could I ask of my network??? I start a new endeavor, am struggling to find a style that fits, and without even asking, am given advice! I’m so grateful that you emailed me, it means so much to me that someone is taking the time to help. I started my blog mostly as a place of reflection, but really like to share ideas, as well. I’m definitely going to shorten up my posts, but will KEEP the lists. I love lists, couldn’t live without them. What do you think of my blog presentation? Worth taking the time to change, or keepable? Thanks for participating in my education

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By: dswaters

dswaters — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:17:00 +0000

Valid point Daniel and it does get back to personal preference on how you read the posts in your reader. I like to read the first sentence of each paragraph because often the first paragraph does not give a true indication of the value of the post. Sometimes it is the little gem near the bottom of a post that makes the difference.

If all my feeds were on partial feeds it would mean I would have to click on every link to see if it was actually worth reading. Most times if a person has partial feeds I give up and unsubscribe because for me it is added work to read.

By: Daniel Dacey

Daniel Dacey — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:39:40 +0000

Bloggers that don’t use full feeds!

Actually Sue I would have to disagree with you on this one. The whole point of RSS for me is I can scim a large number of articles in a very short time. The heading and the first one or two sentences should be sufficient to tell me if I want to read the article or delete it and move on.

If you force me to have to read the whole page to find out what its about, then I am less likely to look at it.

For me RSS is filtering what I read and reducing the time I spend online looking through webs sites to see if there is anything new and interesting.

Dan

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 09:04:29 +0000

Hi Kevin – actually length of post is a really important point that is worth discussing. Your comment gave me the opportunity to discuss this in detail that I was unable to within the post.

And I did not take it that you were implying it was too long. Length is always the issue for me. I prefer to include all the information in a post if I can rather than break it into section. My latest post on Google Reader has the same issue. Break into separate posts but then the information is separated or accept as a longer post.

I am glad to hear you have similar thoughts that keeping information together is often the better option.

By: Kevin Devin

Kevin Devin — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 06:58:41 +0000

Though I stand by my opinion on length of posts, I guess I should qualify that a bit.

I don’t think this post was too lengthy — I didn’t mean to imply that. Lists like this or instructional type posts can easily grow in length. Sure they could be broken up in to multiple posts, but as much as I dislike lengthy posts, I also dislike breaking up lists or instruction that could easily be accommodated within a single post.

Posts that I tend to shy away from are those that are in the 1500 word neighborhood and seem to drone on and on.

There is something to be said for being succinct in my opinion.

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Participating in Other People’s Spaces » CogDogBlog — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 05:56:29 +0000

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By: dswaters

dswaters — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:55:13 +0000

Hi Emma – I am glad you found some useful points. I agree — the number of subscriptions really gets back to the time you have available. Fortunately I have become really quick reading posts which helps. Definitely the more you read the better you tend to write — top bloggers tend to subscribe to lots of blogs.

Hi Kevin – Yes lots of people have liked my Bulls eye and have adapted it for instructional design of elearning.

Post length as you pointed out is an interesting area. Most recommend the optimum to be about 500 words however there are some well known bloggers who tend to write really long posts.

This post was definitely too long and the solution would have been to break it into separate posts but I decided that I did not want to do that.

Hi cthompson – definitely commenting on other people’s posts helps get people to view your blog. However now that I have made it part of my daily routine I do it because I enjoy the conversations and it helps with my own learning.