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Set the Macalope's feeds free!

by The Macalope
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RSS feeds should now be full Macalopey goodness.

Turns out all the horned one had to do was ask. How 'bout that?

Thanks, Kelly and Bernie!

UPDATE: Whoops! Let's call this an experiment. It turns out that a consequence of this that the Macalope didn't realize is that CNet doesn't pay for someone who just looks at the RSS feed. If no one views the page anymore then the brown and furry one doesn't get paid and if he's not getting paid then the little Macalopes don't get their little hooves shod. And nobody wants that.

Mythical beast and rumormonger extraordinaire, the Macalope writes about all things Apple for the CNET Blog Network. Read more at The Macalope: An Apple blog. He is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.

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We can't have that!
by kimgh September 10, 2007 2:26 PM PDT
So you get a hit from me anyway!
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What... no cash
by ChrisinSapporo September 10, 2007 2:33 PM PDT
no coin for me not coming here... well thats it.. Im gonna make you a rich
man.... Home page.. Macalope.
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Commentation
by The Real John Muir September 10, 2007 5:02 PM PDT
Let's hope the Macalope family makes extra from comments. As if?

Seriously boss dudes and advertisers: feed subscribers make the most valuable audience. So says one of them, admittedly.
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Restrict the feeds?
by brett_x September 12, 2007 1:17 PM PDT
Can't you restrict the feeds to the first paragraph or so? I've seen that done on
other blogs. It's a nice way for readers to tell there's a new post and give them
an idea of the topic. You still get your clicks if your opening paragraph is
interesting enough. I suggest you refer to yourself as "the horned one" at least 2
times. That oughta get the clicks.
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Change it back please
by dadams September 12, 2007 10:47 PM PDT
It could just be me, but I prefer the short posts in the feed. And plus I think you
should get paid for the effort you put in. Excellent job Macalope! :-)
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Your subject needs to be at least 10 characters
by Ölbaum October 3, 2007 1:38 AM PDT
I like to have full feeds because regardless of the size of the excerpt, there's
always a case where it's too short to decide if I want to read the article or not.

When the articles are longer that a couple of sentences, though, I always open
them in my browser to read them, so that makes a page view.
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