Bye, CNet
CNet (“News.com”) has recently switched to headline-only feeds. I certainly don’t require (and don’t provide) full-content feeds, but the headlines just don’t tell me enough to make a decision whether or not to visit. So I unsubscribed. It’s a pity, because they are a good news source. Maybe I’m just looking in the wrong place? [ongoing]
I haven’t unsubscribed yet — for no other reason than laziness — but I wonder what made them decide to switch feed formats? And I wonder if they have noticed a. traffic going up or down, as a result, and b. any change in the number of subscribers to the RSS feeds?
My technique, to misuse the word, for tallying subscribers is to simply count all requests for *.(xml|rss|atom) files, with some rudimentary tidying after the fact. I wonder what other people use?