News flash A popular blog truncated its RSS feeds to boost site pageviews. It’s like last week, when The Atlantic changed to partial-content RSS feeds. And that was like every other week, when some publisher did something that some readers didn’t like to make a few more cents. … One reaction I’ve never had is to think that I deserve anything from these publishers. … We don’t deserve anything. Publishers can do whatever they want. If you don’t like it, don’t send them nasty emails or browse their sites with ad-blockers: just don’t support them. Don’t read their content, don’t link to them, and don’t talk about them. Since money’s not usually involved, vote with your attention and read elsewhere.

I don’t really have much of an opinion on the story Marco is commenting on, but I like his thoughts regarding the sense of entitlement many of the people discussing it seem to have.

Here’s an exercise: Replace, “I don’t like x, so they should…” with, “I don’t like x, so I should.”

And another one, for good measure: Never say, “They should fix x,” without qualifying who they are. You might find it gives you a wonderful sense of perspective into why they didn’t do what you prefer.