Poor old Observer
Neil McIntosh writes in praise of excepted RSS, and drops in this little nugget:
in an otherwise very complementary post about the Observer blog, Cory Doctorow initially thinks the feed is full text, only to discover it’s not. “The RSS is
fulltext(crap, no it’s not — this is such an important detail, Observer — get it right!)”
Now, here’s Cory’s introduction to the piece that Neil quoted:
Last weekend, I stayed on the remarkably comfortable sofa of Ben Hammersely and his fantastic wife Anna Söderblom, in Florence, Italy. Florence has lots to recommend it, but possibly the most fascinating thing I saw that weekend was the project Ben was working on for the Observer, the oldest Sunday newspaper in the world. Ben has helped the Observer web-ify itself, with a vengeance.
Now aside from Ben’s wife being “fantastic”, but Ben getting no such adjective, I’m suddenly struck by how the praise and blame gets ladled out — Ben gets the praise for creating the blog, but the Observer gets flamed for the lack of full text in the blog’s feed.
Poor old Obs. What’s going on there?
