posted on Monday, May 24, 2004 9:07 PM
by
Enigma
Including Images in RSS feeds
Ramblings :Including images in RSS feeds
I am a guy who is mostly on Dial-up connection while viewing my blog roll. The vast amount of info published on weblogs is overwhelming enough.
I agree with Scoble on his view that the entire text should be included in the feed, coz I would not like to make use of additional bandwidth for getting the complete text or visiting the site for reading the entire post. What I dislike though, is including images in the RSS feed.
Take the case of today, there are a lot of bloggers talking about their experience at TechEd San Diego and almost 40% have posted images back on their posts. I am not interested in viewing those images and nor reading about where a guy is staying or where he will be availible during Teched. Now the text part from their posts is acceptable, coz text download size as compared to image download size is very less. Forcing the image in the feed takes up a lot of my bandwidth.
So, any votes for removing images from the RSS feed ? Feel free to leave your comments.