Full text in RSS?
Friday, October 24, 2008 by Dave Winer.
Guardian: "Our feeds now contain the full content of each article so that you can take guardian.co.uk with you wherever you prefer to get your news." 
First, I'm not aware of any other publication of the Guardian's size and stature that has gone this way, and I know some people will be excited about it and welcome it.
However I don't think full text makes sense in all circumstances.
I prefer the River of News approach, as exemplified by nytimesriver.com and bbcriver.com, and full text feeds wouldn't work very well there. If you want to skim the news quickly, from a large number of sources, the style favored by the Times and the BBC works better. I wouldn't want to see all news sources feel pressure to go the same way as the Guardian.
I think giving readers choice is the best way to go.
BTW the Scripting News feed has always been full text.
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