Full Length RSS Feeds using WizardRSS!
RSS, which I have written about several times before, is my primary medium for gaining information - newsworthy, political, technological. One of the issues with using RSS to catch up on news and posts is that many sites these days do not have full site RSS feeds. Instead, they truncate their RSS entries to include only the first few sentences or a summary of each article.
Luckily, I have come across an amazing little tool called WizardRSS that takes any RSS feed and converts it to a new RSS feed that includes the full length articles instead of the truncated ones of the original. The technology is based on another great tool called Readability, on which incidentally Apple built its new Safari Reader feature.
While it doesn’t work completely correctly for all feeds, WizardRSS is an amazing improvement over using standard “sneak peak” RSS feeds, particularly for newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal.
If you’re an RSS regular, I highly recommend you convert your truncated RSS feeds using WizardRSS - it’s quite useful (and free)!
