The popular Freakonomics Blog has recently moved to the New York Times, and along the way it's dropped its full-text RSS feed. Stephen Dubner wrote a thoughtful explanation of the reasons for the switch — basically, advertisers aren't comfortable with RSS — but judging from the comment section the blog's readers are still upset.

Well, let me offer a gentle reminder that our very own full text RSS tool continues to work, and was designed for exactly this purpose. I've tested it with the new, truncated Freakonomics feed and it works great. Why not give it a try and help push advertisers just a little bit closer to grappling with the internet?

Freakonomics full-text feed

UPDATE: Alas! It looks like the Freakonomics authors have adopted the intermittent and irritating habit of writing descriptions in the RSS description field rather than including excerpts of the actual text. That confuses our general-purpose algorithm.

However, it won't stop a dedicated Freakonomics fan from creating a blog-specific script to provide full feeds. Here, I'll even get them started:

m/<div\s+class="post\-content">(.*?)\-+>/i
s/<\/?div[^>]*>//igx;