I don't think that describing the Google Directory as a 'superset' of the Open Directory Project is correct. The former regularly updates it's data from the latter, and does not have any volunteer editors of it's own. I'm not aware of any Google employees doing this work either, but that could simply be ignorance on my part.
They obviously massage the data in various ways, the most obvious being that they order entries by pagerank, rather than alphabetically, but they also do some stuff to consolidate or relocate the categories in the tree.
In some cases, I have noticed that sites listed in the ODP are not listed in the Google directory, but it's hard to tell if this is due to editing or just that the Google directory hasn't been refreshed from the ODP recently enough to reflect changes.
This might not be an original observation:
The Bush administration is turning the US into the Microsoft of geopolitics.
Patrick, by virtue of the fact that your feed now includes both an excerpt and the full text (in the 'description' and 'content:encoded' elements respectively), your users now have a choice as to which one the news aggregator displays.
That is, of course, assuming that the aggregator they're using: (a) understands both elements, and (b) offers the user a choice somewhere as a preference setting (either globally or per-feed). If the software they're using does not offer this as an option, then they still have the choice to switch to some other aggregator that does.
In any case, you don't need to do anything else.
Patrick,
Rather than simply putting the full text in the description tag (which is intended for excerpts), I suggest you change your template to include the full text in the content:encoded element instead, allowing your readers to control which they see. Here is a link to an appropriate template for MovableType, and explanation on how to use it:
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/09/26/rss_20_template.html
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