Sparse Posts (from: Kevin A. Burton)
http://www.peerfear.org/rss/permalink/2005/02/03/SparsePosts
I do have to admit that this is an annoying problem:
The problem I have is quite similar to what Matt describes: when new itemsshow up in my newsreader from people I enjoy reading, I’m often mildlydisappointed when it’s simply a new camera phone image, or a couple ofsparsely-described links to stuff I’ve already seen.
I’ll go one further though, and say this about the practice: it’s reallydamaging the signal-to-noise ratio of content I otherwise love. I have enoughfeeds in my list (120 at the moment) that anything on there has to work prettyhard to stay that way, from a useful-content perspective. When 7 new items popup, that’s 7 to manually flag as read, whether I end up reading it or not.
I’ll go one step further. A lot of major publishers have feeds but they neverhave any content. No content, no images, and hardly any text. I already have150 beautiful full-content feeds in my aggregator. If you don’t give mefull-content or a cheap one line sentence I’m just going to end up unsubscribingto your site and probably never return.
No hard feelings though. I just don’t have enough hours in the day to add thisnoise to my life. If its important enough one of the other 150 blogger willcertainly comment on the story.