I’m sorry to post a comment so late on this thread.

I use summary feeds because I don’t like people ripping my stuff off either. I put a lot of time and effort into what I put up on my blog. To have someone come along and put that same content directly onto their website (especially with little or no attribution) is insulting.

Those people who don’t want to subscribe to my feed because of the summary feeds are simply ungrateful and spoiled.

Regarding Feedburner:

Ever since I moved my blog, Feedburner has not been reporting my Bloglines subscribers, which are a significant part of my subscribers. My Feedburner stats are teeny tiny compared to what they used to be. I have emailed both Feedburner and Bloglines but neither seems to understand what my problem is. I’m tired of messing with it.

Anon, is that a fair compromise?

Anonymous Coward: Modifying the rss template to insert a copyright statement, or some such, is a good idea. I’ll have to check into when I get a chance.

Joe,
Thanks for letting a little guy like me know! I just figured the subscription number dropoff was my own problem or something else, not a Yahoo issue.

You’re seeing a drop in subscribers because Yahoo is no longer reporting subscriber numbers to us. Yahoo is aware of this issue, and they have told us that it will be a few weeks before they can fix the bug. Until then, you will see a lower subscribership in your feed stats.

Feel free to shoot us an email at feedback at feedburner dot com if you have any other issues or concerns.

Regards,
Joe Kottke
IT Director
FeedBurner

fivecentnickel.com, I should drop your summary feed, too. Like a bad habbit. Actually, I have just resubscribed to Jim’s. (I guess I have no spine…) I have never thought about theft of content being such a problem. That still doesn’t change the fact that a feed like Free Money Finance’s is more pleasant to read (some would probably argue over the use of long quotations).

Regarding deletions or editing, I cannot be on the same side with the bloggers. Once is out there, if you take it back it’s gonna look bad. One can always strike through and/or add further explanations. But, again, this depends on the point of view: if you see the site as a blog or as a collection of articles. Obviously, you don’t want to see strikethrough in a NY Times article, but neither do you want to go back later to the online archive and find something edited out.

And, like Jim, I also use the ‘more’ tag to split long entries on the front page to keep it clean and not too long. But if you get to one of my articles via my feed, it loads up the whole article (just like on this site).

The reason for not publishing the full content on the homepage is because I thought it would clutter things up, I was thinking about publishing the first (or first three) post(s) in their entirety and then just excerpting the rest but hadn’t gotten around to figuring out the Wordpress mechanics of it.

While it is my site, my sweat, and my rules I do want to make it as good a site as possible. What do you dislike about the font? Is it because it’s a sans serif font? I thought about making it serif’d for easier reading. I found that applying ClearType, if you have Windows XP, makes it (and other websites) look gorgeous.

Thank you for your answer. I know some people who would have deleted my comments, instead of offering a civilized explanation.

I am really sorry to hear about the theft. Maybe one solution would be to add a signature to each post, marking your copyright.

I did not want to sound ungrateful, because I do appreciate your articles. However, I prefer to read blogs in “newspaper view”, while I am multitasking, and the fewer clicks the better. You don’t publish the full content even on your own home page (as many blogs do – but maybe you don’t consider this site a blog?). After a while, clicking back and forth just to read a few extra paragraphs can get annoying. (And I don’t enjoy your font style, but that’s less important.)

I am just a spoiled reader, who has subscriptions to a number of good financial magazines and blogs, and that probably makes me picky.

Your site, your sweat, your rules.

I’m sorry to see you go but I feel I give enough of a taste (I’m still struggling to get Feedburner to write the first 500 characters, it doesn’t seem to want to) of the article in the excerpts but I’ll try harder.

Sure, when one reads only a few blogs/day it’s no big deal. However, when one has a couple hundred feeds to keep up with, one’s time is money, too, and one tends to choose the path of least resistence.