Teaser Feeds

It really bothers me when websites truncate their posts in RSS feeds and only show you little snippets of the story.  It defeats the purpose of RSS – and renders my offline reader useless.  I can understand why they do it; they want to get page views and ad impressions, and most of the time the post isn’t that interesting so I skip it.  But really, does the Whitehouse.gov RSS feed have to do it too?

Cold News

January 15th came and went – and we all still have a job.  Twitter flurried, experts predicted, and news trucks descended on campus like vultures on a kill, but in the end, everyone was duped.  Internet rumors can be nasty beasts, but one with the widespread implications on peoples lives and a local economy like this one, really should be scrutinized a bit more before it’s believed.  I almost feel bad for the Q13Fox guy who had to stand outside in the cold at 6m trying to get his story, or the KOMO4 people, disappointed I’m sure that they don’t have a video of a mass of despondent souls walking out of their offices a final time on their way to the dole line.   I almost feel bad for them, but really, I don’t.  They all too eagerly play into the game, fuel the rumors, and revel in the thought of having a bad situation to stick their cameras in.  I don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow, I don’t know if there will be layoffs or not, but I do know that if I get a pink slip not a single one of those “journalists” will be getting their sound bite from me.