Comments on: Ads in Slate’s RSS: Fresh promos, updated on demand in stale content http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/10/07/ads-in-slates-rss-fresh-promos-updated-on-demand-in-stale-content It's all spinning wheels and self-doubt until the first pot of coffee. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:06:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-bleeding By: Mike DeWolfe http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/10/07/ads-in-slates-rss-fresh-promos-updated-on-demand-in-stale-content#comment-2347 Mike DeWolfe Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:04:05 +0000 http://decafbad.com/blog/?p=722#comment-2347 <p>True: feeds are supposed to be feeds of information and not mixed with ads. But, it's their sandbox. If you pick up someone's feed, you have to either play by their rules or play somewhere else. For people who use feeds in their aggregation client, this is regrettable, because they are using RSS feeds as a replacement for news sites and traditional media. When RSS feeds are used to fuel the content of other sites, it's a case of Scraper Beware. Before, site creators would have to manually pull together links from other sites and add that content to their own site. RSS feeds allow them to save a lot of time and effort. They will have to adopt to a WSE tool to load in feeds and keep them in a holding pattern; then purposefully allow or bar content, creating a release lag. Maybe the objectionability of ads will spur feed users to be more selective instead of bombarding us with everyone that someone else saw fit to add to an RSS feed.</p> True: feeds are supposed to be feeds of information and not mixed with ads. But, it's their sandbox. If you pick up someone's feed, you have to either play by their rules or play somewhere else. For people who use feeds in their aggregation client, this is regrettable, because they are using RSS feeds as a replacement for news sites and traditional media. When RSS feeds are used to fuel the content of other sites, it's a case of Scraper Beware. Before, site creators would have to manually pull together links from other sites and add that content to their own site. RSS feeds allow them to save a lot of time and effort. They will have to adopt to a WSE tool to load in feeds and keep them in a holding pattern; then purposefully allow or bar content, creating a release lag. Maybe the objectionability of ads will spur feed users to be more selective instead of bombarding us with everyone that someone else saw fit to add to an RSS feed.

]]> By: George Hotelling http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/10/07/ads-in-slates-rss-fresh-promos-updated-on-demand-in-stale-content#comment-2234 George Hotelling Fri, 07 Oct 2005 15:10:39 +0000 http://decafbad.com/blog/?p=722#comment-2234 <p>Bloglines has a boolean option per-subscription that allows you to mark whether changed entries should be marked as new. Default is on, but some feeds benefit greatly from this; such as <a href="http://alterslash.org/" rel="nofollow">Alterslash</a> and, I imagine, Slate.</p> Bloglines has a boolean option per-subscription that allows you to mark whether changed entries should be marked as new. Default is on, but some feeds benefit greatly from this; such as Alterslash and, I imagine, Slate.

]]> By: kellan http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/10/07/ads-in-slates-rss-fresh-promos-updated-on-demand-in-stale-content#comment-2233 kellan Fri, 07 Oct 2005 15:07:23 +0000 http://decafbad.com/blog/?p=722#comment-2233 <p>As I'm sure you know, the hashing the content is <em>the</em> industry standard approach to tracking changes in feeds, because a huge percentage of feeds don't deliver valid unique ids and updated times. Hashing is the only thing that works.</p> <p>I suppose you could support a suite of algorithms, and choose between them on a feed by feed basis, but ick.</p> As I'm sure you know, the hashing the content is the industry standard approach to tracking changes in feeds, because a huge percentage of feeds don't deliver valid unique ids and updated times. Hashing is the only thing that works.

I suppose you could support a suite of algorithms, and choose between them on a feed by feed basis, but ick.

]]>