Comments on: Eric Ward: Good Guy; Justin Seibert: Giant Jag-Off

By: Paul Woodhouse

Paul Woodhouse — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:59:34 +0000

@Jotham: It’s regular readers like your good self who point out ‘ease of use’ issues. Thank the Lord we don’t have more than half a dozen otherwise we’d probably be inundated with all manner of usability questions.

Anyway, just for you, I’ve installed a plugin that displays the full text in RSS feeds. You see, we’ve just been switching from the excerpt view of posts to using the more tag in posts as the more tag allows for better formatting. The problem with the more tag is that it truncates the feed text as well. Apparently that is something that will be changed in the next big Wordpress update.

Anyway, I’ve tested the plugin and it’s working when you view the feed from feedburner although I’m not seeing a change in Google Reader as yet.

That means - give it a bit of time if there doesn’t appear to be a change.

By: Justin Seibert

Justin Seibert — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:56:59 +0000

Faithful Reader #011 a/k/a Jotham - Weren’t aware of any issues until now. Please email me or comment back with answers to 2 questions: 1. which feed reader, and 2. is this recurring or just with yesterday’s post? We made some changes to the blog’s presentation yesterday and I want to know if that caused any or no change. Cheers!

By: David Temple

David Temple — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:59:51 +0000

Good on Eric Ward for keeping track of his name for reputation management. Good on me for not commenting on your afore mentioned question and mentioning Eric as a link master. Good on you for the public apology.

By: Jotham

Jotham — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:45:42 +0000

As one of the “half dozen regular readers” of your blog (and skimmer of the long posts), I have an ease-of-use question. Why is it that for all the bigdog blogs out there, I can conveniently read them in my Reader, but for directom I only get the first few sentences before having to click “more” and get redirected to your site? answer me that jag.

By: Eric Ward

Eric Ward — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:29:18 +0000

Lordy if I had known you were a Vandy grad I never would have called. Those photos are salt in the wound from that game, which I blame 100% on the refs.

Go Big Orange.

Eric

Interesting google news results

vanderbilt beats tennessee - 2,402
tennessee beats vanderbilt - 2,416

We are winning by 14.