The Great RSS Debate Rages in Nerddom

A lot of nerds are talking about RSS feeds right now (okay, non-nerds: sites that you like visiting can be delivered to a single place, all together-one that is either browser-based, like Google Reader, or application-based, where you open it up and all your websites are just hangin’ out there) and whether they should be “full” or “truncated.” Recently, one rather large blog site called Gawker moved from a full RSS feed to a truncated one, and this is very upsetting to these people who care about such things and I love watching them rumble. (One person predicts that such a change has to do with cleaning up Gawker and making it a mega-news site; but then no one really understands why Gawker’s owner Nick Denton does what he does.) The good news out of all of this is this fun stat of the day: “after the Guardian moved to full RSS feeds in late 2008, its web traffic grew dramatically, from 25 million to 37 million monthly uniques.” If you’d like to learn more, go for it. Nerd.