An inter­est­ing post from Michael Efford last week titled: RSS vs Design. In it, he dis­cusses his feel­ings after find­ing the RSS feed is the most requested doc­u­ment on his site, and asks the ques­tion “where does this leave design?” It’s a good read.

That got me think­ing. Mike’s a Perth-ite and a Port 80 reg­u­lar, so I know he’s one tal­ented dude. If I could cre­ate designs as beau­ti­ful as his, I’d prob­a­bly mourn the fact that peo­ple weren’t see­ing them as well (love the fruit). How­ever, my design skills are an acquired taste (that only I have acquired) so that doesn’t worry me. The cranky old cur­mud­geon in me really likes the fact that RSS allows me to read all sorts of inter­est­ing and diverse infor­ma­tion with­out hav­ing to endure everyone’s dif­fer­ing opin­ions on what’s readable.

Which got me think­ing… I don’t include full posts in my RSS feeds. Why not? Pure lazi­ness. Fuse­blog 1 is set up that way by default and I never both­ered to change it. But I’ve decided that now I will – so, if all goes to plan, my future posts should appear in the feed in their entirety. This post is a test, as such.