Posts Tagged ‘blogging’

2009 Bloggies

January 22, 2009 by Emily  

Around the Web, Clients, Honors

The finalists of the 2009 weblog awards were announced today and we are so happy to see so many of our wonderful clients on there. Be sure to check out all the finalists’ websites, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t give a little push to our clients:

Best Canadian Blog:
Attack of the Redneck Mommy
Cheaty Monkey

Best Art, Craft or Design Blog:
Craftastrophe (co-founded by one of our own, Karen)

Best Teen Blog:
Sarcastica

Best Kept Secret Blog:
Chickens in the Road

Congratulations to all the finalists! Go vote for your favs today. Voting closes on February 2 and winners are announced in March.

Web 101: Full vs Partial Feeds

March 24, 2008 by Emily  

Around the Web, Web 101

Over at the Blog Herald, there’s a great article on why people shouldn’t be using partial feeds. The author makes a lot of good points, essentially boiling it down to the fact that there are no benefits to using a partial feed. It doesn’t deter sploggers from stealing your content and it doesn’t bring extra traffic to your site; you are basically just frustrating your regular readers and alienating new ones. Read the full article for more.

What I find funny is his rationalizing of why it’s okay for some blogs (*ahem* the one he’s writing on) to use partial feeds. The only instance in which I think it’s okay to offer a partial feed is if you offer a full feed as well. I have seen several blogs that offered a full feed with ads and a partial feed without ads. I have no problem with that, it even kind of makes sense. Although, I can’t imagine there are an overwhelming number of people that hate ads so much they would put up with the frustration of a partial feed. But different strokes, right?

You should respect your readers enough to let them choose how they want to view your site. Offering just a partial feed takes that choice away and more often than not, they won’t bother reading at all.