The Guardian has become the first major newspaper to post their articles in full in their RSS feed. Glorious news.
It’s a move that’ll delight readers, but even more importantly, it’ll delight Google. From the Google Reader blog:
This is a huge first step in making more content available in more places, and we applaud the Guardian for taking it.
There is no more important a relationship that an online presence can establish than one with Google.
Now come on, all you others, keep up.
To be honest, I’m not sure this is the best idea. I’ve been reading the Guardian for ages on RSS. I like the old way because I can get an idea of other stuff that is happening and clicking through to the site for the articles I’m actually interested in. Now I have to wade through the full text of the less interesting stories to get to the good stuff.