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Fury as Freakonomics switches to crippled feed

August 9, 2007 in Blogging by markk

The highly popular Freakonomics blog is now a New York Times blog. This means that registration is not required (hooray!), comments are now moderated (boo!) and the RSS feed is now only an excerpt feed rather than a full feed (boo!).

The reaction from Freakonomics readers can be briefly summarised as follows:

If you look at the comments on the latest post, three-quarters of them are complaining about the feed. Apparently I’m not the only one who dislikes crippled feeds.

With this in mind, I hereby promise that the feed for this blog shall be a full feed forever. Makes you want to subscribe, doesn’t it?

UPDATE: the authors respond.

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