Robert Scoble writes

Yes, Tris Hussey I’m unsubscribing from Chris Pirillo’s and any other feed that isn’t full text. I’m tired of reading feeds that treat me badly. I have more than 1,300 full text feeds. There’s one or two exceptions. The New York Times. CNET. Slashdot. But, sorry, Chris, I’ll visit your site once in a while or whenever one of the bloggers that I read tells me you’ve written something interesting (which is quite often)

I suppose it helps to be arrogant and self-sufficient, working for Microsoft.

Maybe you have enough time in the day, when you should be working (fixing some crap M$ code perhaps?) to read full feeds all the time? Many of us don’t?

You’ll be happy for other bloggers to tell you when x or y write something interesting? Great. That sounds like you’ll be happy to get things second-hand.

Why shouldn’t x or y publish RSS (site summary) postings? It’s down to them to write interesting enough prose in their excerpts to make people want to read more, sure, but this attitude effectively says “I don’t value what you write enough to even scan your partial feeds for interesting news”. Fine, don’t read it – but don’t whinge about it and expect people to change their publishing style.

“I’m tired of feeds that treat me badly”

Grow up, Robert. It’s a feed An inanimate object. That’d be like saying that Microsoft Excel treats me badly. It doesn’t actually do that – it’s a pile of crap that screws up my working day – but it doesn’t treat me badly.

This is just text.

There’s one or two exceptions.

Why not just visit their sites direct anyway?

I’m sure Chris Pirillo will find it a great loss that Scoble isn’t reading his posts any more.

By the way, I’m unsubscribing from Scobleizer – not for any other reason than I don’t like the content (full or otherwise) and not sure I wanna read Microsoft toys-out-of-the-pram rubbish any more.

(I never read it much anyway)