I hate partial feeds! I very rarely subscribe to partial feeds, and almost never visit a site that uses them exclusively. If you’re a site owner, and only have partial feeds, I believe that you’ll lose customers or potential customers because of it.

Now I know a few professional webloggers that swear by partial feeds, because they can’t generate as much advertising revenue from their content when it is consumed via an aggregator, and they have a (legitimate) fear of thieves stealing their content. Unfortunately for them, they need to innovate to generate their money and security. You can’t just sit back and not expect someone to come up with a creative way of allowing full feeds and still generate an income. So loosen up a little, and open up to full feeds.

I’m passionate about it, perhaps not as much as Scoble, but enough to follow suit and sign the fullfeeds.com petition.

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