RSS feed update: Switching from Full-Text to Alerts-Only next Monday (Aug-22)

On Monday August 22, 2011, the RSS feed of this blog will switch from full-text to alerts only. All apologies for the inconvenience. This is a tough business decision that unfortunately needed to be made. We have been offering a free full-text feed since the early days of the blog, and about half of the time it was also ad-free. It was a feature/benefit during the "Camelot" days, but those days are over. While many people use the free full-text RSS feed, and on very busy days it may even get almost as much action as the main blog, only a very very tiny fraction of RSS readers even considered the possibility of helping support a free full-text RSS feed by visiting the NoisyMall as mentioned in every RSS feed post. So the market has decided...