But most smokers would rather puff than inject nicotine, and most of us used to be as hungry to see a site as to read its words. RSS feeds may subtly discourage that impulse to seek, see, bookmark, and return.
Zeldman, always on top of things, on why he hasn't set up an RSS feed yet. As always, an excellent piece that provides a counter argument to the "Syndicate your site or die trying group".
I don't use an aggregator, but I do provide an RSS feed of excerpts for my entries. Unlike Mark, though, I let the system take care of creating the excerpt as opposed to doing it myself, making it not as useful as it could be. I've been asked to create a full-post feed, but I'm still not interested in doing that. I think the important thing to keep in mind is that RSS has gotten to the point where it's so easy to find a good template or decent examples that even people just getting started have the option to choose whether or not they want to syndicate. The tools available are giving people more opportunities than they've had before. That's the important thing.