I'm Lani. I live in Austin, Texas (jealous?). I am the New Media Director of Single Pointe Realty (and AgentGenius.com). I keep this blog as my personal take on the market, the business of Real Estate, and the agents that make up the profession from all over the nation. Because I am not a licensed agent- I write commentary from the unique perspective of part consumer, part insider. Oh, and I have a ridiculous affinity for cheese.
We're a unique real estate company that doesn't operate as a traditional brokerage. We bring new technology, modern buying & selling strategies to our clients- it's been my job to create a home buying & selling experience that is fun, fresh, & exciting for today's Austin real estate consumer.
Inman moves to partial feeds for feed readers. I generally keep it a policy to unsubscribe to any feed that I am forced to go to a page for. I know there is controversy over full vs. partial feed offerings, but I have way too much on my plate to manage having to click over to every single blog.
…feed my blog addiction and go back to full feeds!
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February 15th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
I have the same policy.
A couple of weeks ago I stumbled onto a great blog and was excited to subscribe, but once I saw it was a partial feed it was instantly 86′d from my reader without thinking twice.
Hoping this is a cruel joke/experiment gone wrong,
Andy
February 16th, 2008 at 12:11 am
Ugh… partial feeds suck.
February 16th, 2008 at 7:53 am
What a shame. Inman’s usually such a leader; hopefully they won’t lead others down this pitiful path.
BTW - nice to see that readers of your blog are “cool and trendy.”
February 16th, 2008 at 8:03 am
Wow. Partial feeds bite. I have a special ghetto in my reader for them, and every time I enter the ghetto, I feel angry.
February 16th, 2008 at 11:37 am
I’ve been told by Inman this this was not a “conscious decision” and they’ll look into it.
Is that like the time I didn’t make a “conscious decision” to “be tired” and “have a headache” and then I promised to remedy it (especially since I was called on it)? Just teasin’ Inman- I look forward to full feeds (since I don’t actually “have a headache”)!
February 16th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
I’m with you on this one too. When I setup my new site, I considered partial feeds for about half a second but then remembered how much I dislike them. Let’s keep this informal petition going, hopefully they’ll listen to their advocates.
February 16th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
If you’re reading this Joel — please reverse this change. I’d love to follow the inman blog as well, but if I can’t read the full text in my feed reader, then it’s going to basically result in me only reading inman blog when another blog links to a specific article.
February 16th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
I go round and round mentally over partial vs full feeds. I hate reading partial feeds, but there seems to be some evidence that overall partial feeds appear to boost readership.
Plus if you follow a blog on full feed, you may never actually visit it. I think we miss some of the impact of the site as a whole.
But yeah. I still hate them.
February 16th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Athol, you’re right- there are heaving benefits AND disadvantages either way you go. But I’m with most the commenters here- no me gusta partial feeds, I’ll unsubscribe no matter how important the blog is to me.
February 16th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
@iani- Maybe. But partial feeds are more palatable with Better Reader @ lifehacker. It’s a one click preview in Google Reader. Not perfect but better.
February 16th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
It definitely can increase clicks and impressions…. or drive people to unsubscribe.
February 17th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Going to look into this one. Inman Blog feeds should be full feeds (no decision was made to go to partial) - I will look in to Feedburner and see if something was reset by accident.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Looks like the problem was with Typepad. Full feeds have been restored.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Joel saves the day!
February 18th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
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February 21st, 2008 at 5:16 pm
I don’t write for agents on my main real estate site. Most of my traffic is search engine based - people looking for specific info. I stick to partial feeds on that site because it has greatly cut down on the scraped content and if I lose people because of a feed reader, that’s ok. For a few other blogs where the readership is different, they are full feeds. You just have to know your audience.