Fri, 07 Nov 2008

Bloggers getting bigger and messier

Being on ISDN out in the country I surely notice the longer and longer load times for popular blogs. But I would contend that this is a trend for the web in general - folks seem to have forgotten that real data takes real time to transfer, broadband or not.

What really annoys me, though, is the increasing size of RSS feeds. Wired has started placing the full text, with images, of every story in their RSS feeds. Slashdot adds all manner of tags and invisible images - tracking cookies - into theirs. And nearly everybody now throws tag links and advertising on the tail of their feeds. All this takes time just to "read the headline". Ridiculous.

Blog front pages are now large pages of images and scripts rather than the pared-down text pages of old.

(link) [The Register]

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