My intuition, or personal preference, seems to have been vindicated.
I would be very interested in feedback on the different formats in which the same posts are presented.
From www.useit.com
Corporate Blogs: Front Page Structure
Summary:
Showing summaries of many articles is more likely to draw in users than providing full articles, which can quickly exhaust reader interest.
Eyetracking Blog Readers
We recently conducted an eyetrackingstudy of how people read the “official” weblogs of companies, government agencies, and major non-profit organizations. I’ll refer to all these collectively as “corporate blogs” to differentiate them from the larger world of personal blogs, which typically don’t have a business goal and thus don’t interest us here.The main purpose of our research was to generate new guidelines for the Writing for the Web seminars, and most of the findings accordingly centered on issues like preferred topics, tone of voice, scannability and layout, charts vs. tables, and how readers interpret links. But we also got interesting results that inform this article’s central question: whether to display summaries or full articles on the front page.