July 14, 2004

Radio edit

Posted by Henry

We introduced an innovation a few weeks back and completely forgot to announce it. We’re a group blog which frequently has quite lengthy posts. Thus, when one of us does a post of more than a paragraph or two, it’s usually excerpted on the main page, so that the reader needs to click on “read more” in order to finish reading it. As far as we can tell, most readers prefer this ‘radio edit’ - it means that posts don’t disappear rapidly to the bottom of a very long page. However, some don’t. For the latter, we’ve created the Crooked Timber Extended Play Mix, which publishes each post in its entirety to the Crooked Timber main page (you still have to click for comments). If you prefer not to have to click through to read full posts, you should bookmark this version instead (it’s also available in the left sidebar as ‘full post version’).

Posted on July 14, 2004 03:31 PM UTC
Comments

Is there a fullposts RSS or Atom feed?

Posted by EricinTX · July 14, 2004 04:19 PM

Ah, good. As far as I can tell, there is no advantage whatsoever to being forced against one’s will to click an extra time.

Posted by praktike · July 14, 2004 04:26 PM

The radio edit is what we already had. This is the “extended play dance mix.”

Posted by bza · July 14, 2004 04:31 PM

>The radio edit is what we already had. This is the “extended play dance mix.”

Exactly.

Posted by Henry · July 14, 2004 04:35 PM

Although, in fairness that was clearer in the original version of the post (I did a bit of editing) - will revise to make the analogy stick.

Posted by Henry · July 14, 2004 05:15 PM

Maybe I’m obtuse. I’ve always thought of the radio version of a song as the short one; you get the long mix in the clubs.

Posted by bza · July 14, 2004 09:20 PM

Please add a fullposts RSS feed. I can’t understand your logic for not offering one.

Posted by Lance Knobel · July 14, 2004 11:05 PM

Let me add my voice to the chorus of “extended mix rss/atom feeds.”

Or at the very least fix the rss feed so that the “…” is visible in the rss feed so we know when we need to open the main page for the complete story.

Posted by Eli · July 16, 2004 02:10 AM
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