Here’s an hypothesis that I intend to prove a little bit later. Up for discussion now.
It seems that the higher blogs are in their ranking the less that chance they will have full-text feeds.
Right now this is just anecdotal but I’m debugging some code within TailRank and this seems to be holding up.
After I get our public beta out the door I’m going to run some numbers to see if I’m correct.
Anyone else notice this?
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November 8, 2005 at 9:00 am
Kevin, I think the reason for this on the SH is two-fold:
1. Their bandwidth costs are appreciable, so serving less data in their feeds is a true cost-savings.
2. Weblogs in the SH may well be serving ads on the Web, so they want to leverage their popularity—people will click-through to get the full text—to get eyeballs for their advertisers.
I fear your hypothesis, only beacuse I fear that it could drive cause-effect thinking in the wrong direction by putting the cart in front of the horse. Now, I know you probably aren’t thinking that, but I’m going to state my opinion on this before someone in the blogosphere gets it bass-ackwards. ;)
GFM <– likes being right, just like most of us :D
November 8, 2005 at 9:02 am
Kevin, I think the reason for this on the SH is two-fold:
1. Their bandwidth costs are appreciable, so serving less data in their feeds is a true cost-savings.
2. Weblogs in the SH may well be serving ads on the Web, so they want to leverage their popularity—people will click-through to get the full text—to get eyeballs for their advertisers.
I fear your hypothesis, only beacuse I fear that it could drive cause-effect thinking in the wrong direction by putting the cart in front of the horse. Now, I know you probably aren’t thinking that, but I’m going to state my opinion on this before someone in the blogosphere gets it bass-ackwards. ;)
GFM <– likes being right, just like most of us :D
November 8, 2005 at 9:02 am
Kevin, I think the reason for this on the SH is two-fold:
1. Their bandwidth costs are appreciable, so serving less data in their feeds is a true cost-savings.
2. Weblogs in the SH may well be serving ads on the Web, so they want to leverage their popularity—people will click-through to get the full text—to get eyeballs for their advertisers.
I fear your hypothesis, only beacuse I fear that it could drive cause-effect thinking in the wrong direction by putting the cart in front of the horse. Now, I know you probably aren’t thinking that, but I’m going to state my opinion on this before someone in the blogosphere gets it bass-ackwards. ;)
GFM <– likes being right, just like most of us :D
November 8, 2005 at 9:11 am
Kevin, I think the reason for this on the SH is two-fold:
1. Their bandwidth costs are appreciable, so serving less data in their feeds is a true cost-savings.
2. Weblogs in the SH may well be serving ads on the Web, so they want to leverage their popularity—people will click-through to get the full text—to get eyeballs for their advertisers.
I fear your hypothesis, only beacuse I fear that it could drive cause-effect thinking in the wrong direction by putting the cart in front of the horse. Now, I know you probably aren’t thinking that, but I’m going to state my opinion on this before someone in the blogosphere gets it bass-ackwards. ;)
GFM <– likes being right, just like most of us :D
November 8, 2005 at 10:02 pm
I haven’t noticed this.
However, I only follow feeds with full text. I only serve full text feeds. I understand people need to make money but you can always place ads in your feeds. I don’t want to go to your site when I have 100 other feeds to read…