I know that Dave Winer and many others have been working on subscription harmonizers to let people keep up with their feeds when they are away from their main computers. That's a good solution and one that will work for many people. But in the long run, I don't think it will work for me. Right now my RSS feeds and the metadata that goes with them (like which articles I read, liked, saved, and so on) are stuck in my aggregator (this month, that's FeedDemon). What I'd really like is for my RSS info to be integrated and intertwined with my personal information space. That's one thing.

The thing that really motivated this post was that I want to keep up with feeds during OSCON, but the wireless net is bound to be overloaded with so many people here. So I want to read offline. But I can't read offline if all people put in their feeds are a title and short description.

Just some more thoughts on why feeds should have all the content of the entries in them.