I just enabled full-text feeds for this site. *crickets, one guy way in the back clapping ecstatically*

Okay, so it’s not a mega-ton announcement. For me it’s a good thing because it has been nagging at the back of my mind for a few weeks. Now it’s one less thing I have to think about.

For those for you who are using a feed reader already then I think you get it. (Yes, I’m talking about that one guy in the back)

The ones who aren’t excited by this are the ones that I want to talk to.

The web is a big place. You are a busy person. You don’t get paid to sit at a computer all day, like some people.  But that doesn’t mean you can’t make the web work for you.

There is a treasure trove of valuable content on the web. There is entertainment, education, news and ideas and it’s all being created by people like you. These people understand your hobbies and interests. 

• Like making gourmet confections? Try The Chocolate Gourmand.
• Like poetry and politics together? Check out Sillman’s Blog.
• Like building your own stuff? Go to Instructables.
• Those don’t suit your tastes? Don’t worry, there’s more.

So, yes, the Internet is this great magical thing with all this interesting crap in it. But, you still don’t have time to go to twenty different sites. How can you possibly keep up, especially when they keep making more everyday?

Some people solve this by just not going to all of those sites. You don’t miss what you don’t know right? But, whether you care or not, you are missing something cool.

What if there was a way to fit some of that cool stuff in among all of the other things (read: life) that want your attention too?

Watch this film by the creative guys at Common Craft. They explain in English what feeds can do to solve this problem.

So let’s sum all of this up and get to the final point:

• The web has lots of cool stuff
• Feeds help to manage all of that cool stuff
• GloryFish.org now has full text feeds

Now, if you are subscribed to Gloryfish.org’s feed, you can read the entire article in your reader, without having to come to the site to read the whole thing. You couldn’t do that before. Sorry it took so long. ;)

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