The Next Version Of PQ Living

speaking of feed readers, how about offering full posts?

Does this mean we have to subscribe to everything not to miss a story? Or will all stories go to all venues?

I for one love the multiple posting per day and will miss them.

I second Kat on the request for full posts through the RSS. I’d rather have full posts in my Google Reader than have to click through (along with, say, embedded ads, if that’s the motivation for trying to get people to visit the main site). This is especially true for us readers for whom PQL is only one of several DC-oriented blogs we read — I’d be more likely to read thoroughly, comment, and feel connected to PQL if it were easier to do so.

I’m with Balfour on this. Who has the time to keep up with all these sites?

Also, I hope by “higher quality” updates, you don’t mean long. I like the newsy snippets of updates that are easy to read and fast.

I’ll address a few of the questions, pqresident or gpliving can fill in/correct the rest.

What we publish on this website is automatically published on the facebook page. You can subscribe to/follow the twitter feed it you like, or wait to see if the 140 character tweets turn into a post of substance here on the main page. But this website, pqliving.com, will still be the primary outlet of information for the foreseeable future.

As to higher quality updates, no that does not necessarily mean longer posts. We expect to provide the same types of posts you’ve come to expect, with less of the filler we’ve had to provide along the way to maintain a 7 day a week schedule.

A final word, we’d love to keep the blog published daily, but it is about (our) quality of life. As pqresident mentioned in the above post, we encourage any new voices who would like to contribute. More writers we hope would equal more content and the ability to publish more often.

We really do appreciate all of our readers, and look forward to your comments each time we publish an article.

Yes, while a reluctant Facebook user, I draw the line at Twitter. I hope all the content is posted on the website as that’s the way I prefer to get information.

I want to give a shout out to the contributors, I really enjoy reading the blog every day. Thanks!

thanks MB!

@Kat and @Becky – you both asked about the RSS feed and we will take a closer look at it. the difficulty with RSS is that there is no way to determine how many people read a story via RSS. we want to know what stories are being read so that we know what is of interest and what is not of interest to the reader base. it is true that if people comment on a story, then they must be reading the story.

@Mr. T in DC – thanks for your comment. for now, Twitter is meant to be an auxiliary channel so you’ll still get the real substance by reading off the website or RSS. we have to see what the interest level is in using Twitter to finalize its role. the general idea with adding Facebook and Twitter is to have a network of communication paths for the community, the sum of which is greater than the just the website.

would a subscribe by e-mail feature be of interest to readers?

Just a note, you’re not going to reach me by posting in three different places. I’m not going to read it on Facebook or Twitter, I don’t have the patience for either of those. If I’m going to read it, it will have come in through my Google Reader. So by splitting the postings this way, you may lose some very loyal readers.

if you’re reading using Google Reader, you will continue to see all the website posts. written posts that appear on the website appear identically on Facebook as they would in an RSS reader. Twitter may have its own “posts” but they are limited to 140 characters so they won’t have the same richness as website posts which remain the primary focus of our efforts.

I agree with the request for full posts thru RSS feeds (Google Reader). For some of us, Google Reader is the only way to read blogs at work. I can’t read PQ Living at work (blocked) but if you allowed the full posts in Google Reader I’d be able to read it.

I think it’s a good step forward. Those who like this site, will continue to see all here. This avenue just offers those who do everything on Facebook to even see PQL on their FB sites. I prefer to get a break from Facebook, so I can just continue to read on this site.

Agree with “Mr T in DC”. I find Facebook somewhat annoying and have so far refused to Twitter — This site is one of my daily “must reads”, but I would never go to Facebook for it. Really glad to see that you will keep this option as well