Whenever I leave answerphone messages and listen to them back, I am always really embarrassed that I sound like a small child! I think I must have a rather distinctive voice. Rubbish!!
Does not help when you are trying to hide!!
This makes no sense. Sorry, is the ramblings of a small child alone in a big house!
Laters potatasxxx

Yay! Well done!

Yay!!!

Noooooooo!

use mine!!!!!

It's awesome!

I'd argue that you're more likely to get people to visit the site if they are reading all your content, than if you have summary feeds. Summary feeds lead people to open the article in browser IF it interests them. So you're vying for enough attention to warrant opening in browser.

If, however, people are reading all of your content in a full text feed, then mentioning some cool thing you've done will make it more likely that they visit the site and check it out.

I suppose you lose the impact of small incremental changes by having to draw attention to them, but I know that I personally visit those sites I read via full-text feeds a LOT more regularly than summary feeds, in which the first paragraph seldom tempts me to view the entire article.

I'm reading your feed. To be honest, if you had a fulltext feed I'd probably read MORE of your stuff though -- sometimes the first paragraph makes me open the entry in a browser (like this one), but more often than not, it doesn't.

I'm reading you via Bloglines, which is the only RSS Reader I've ever really used, so not sure how good it is. I just value it being web-based because I use so many different computers day-to-day.

As for putting images/flash in -- I definitely see people including images, but not sure that I've ever seen Flash included! And Flash is generally wrong, but I think we've already had that conversation... ;-)

RSS is a great idea in theory. The problem is that it's one of those technologies that's great in theory, but people are confused by the range of RSS readers out there. When I first got into RSS reading, I just wanted a little thing that sat on the screen somewhere out of the way, and just scrolled through all the RSS feeds I was subscribed to. If I spotted a headline I wanted to read, I could click on it, and it'd open the right webpage.

This sort of thing didn't exist when I was looking around, so I wrote one myself. Looking around today, there are lots of readers out there, and they're all offering new ways of doing things, but I think they're missing out on the simplicity of RSS and trying to make more of it than it actually is.

That said, there's a bunch of stuff that RSS doesn't support, like proper authentication which is actually a little annoying.

What we really need is what is something like the email / browser client markets - a few mainstream leaders and then smaller projects with a smaller marketshare. Currently we've got lots of readers all with a more or less equal marketshare, and therefore none of them get enough market momentum to actually have some serious development work put behind them. They're all trying to be 'different' to each other by putting in new ideas and features, most of which are crap.

I just use my own one, so I'm guilty of almost the same thing though....

"Richard, if you don't stop doing that, I'll hit you with this cd"

They are flogging them for £200 each????
Put a big love from Rads file in there

Radiac - the new Chico?

Happy Birthday Richard! [looks sheepish for not rembering sooner] I hope you had a great day and ate lots of pizza and popcorn cake!

Happy burfday Rads

o/~ We wish you a Merry Christmas, We wish you a Merry Christmas, We wish you a Merry Christmas, and a happy New Year!!! o/~

Happy Birthday!!!