i was wondering about this very issue, since i have a partial RSS feed. Thanks for putting it so succinctly.

Thanks for adding to the conversation.

I appreciate your comment and hope you’ll saty around and keep adding to the community here at Simplenomics.

That’s one of the problems with the whole DTM network, no sense of community, because the bloggers don’t continue the conversation…most of the time. Comments seem to scare them and it seems like they want to give out info, but not receive any. Kinda like a billboard…you know, a blog without comments.

In my rss reader everything is nice and simple. There is no clutter, and everything is easy to read.

I agree that a reader reading via an RSS feed isn’t participating in the whole conversation, but it also doesn’t prevent them from doing that. I tend to click through from my newsreader if the article is interesting enough. However I rarely know by the title or first paragraph if the article is really interesting or not.

Another issue that seems to be of concerns is advertisers. The choice is have people click through to most articles – and leave faily quickly (Like I tend to do with partial feeds) or only click through on articles that *really* interest them. If the advertising is relelvent, the second group would likely be far more profitable for the advertizers. Quality over quantity.

I’m a reader of DTM, and I was happy to see John switch to a full feed. Too early to tell for sure, but I bet I’ll be going to his site just as often (if not more) then when it was a partial feed.

You’re right about two things :

1) This isn’t a conversation – that’s true because you cannot follow along, nor can you accurately answer any of the objections.

2) I’m not changing my position – no need to when I’m right.

Here’s a tip for you from someone who’s sold well over $35 million worth of product – Trying to please everybody is a fools proposition. Trying to be everything to everybody is the fast lane to the poorhouse.

A business has to know what to sell it’s product for to be able to conduct their business. If you let the customer price your product/service, you might as well buy your ticket for the ride to the poorhouse.

I know what it takes for the 14 blogs we operate to survive – if I cannot get the return I have to have, I’ll do something else besides pro bono writing.

You’re welcome to try to give away all you know and do for free….as for me and my house, we’ll do it differently.

If I can’t stay in business, due to a lack of profits, I won’t be there to sell you what you want at the price you want to pay.

You have to participate in my future as I participate in yours.

Do any of these mean anything to you or am I wasting my time trying to teach you something you’ll never get ?