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Beth Goza: Blogs are the anti-popup Push vs Pull.
David Weinberger: Links are little acts of selflessness Making people come back by sending them away.
Bill French: Once you call a thing a blog, you are putting your head in a vice We are not yet done discovering what a blog is.
Blogs are the anti-popup? Yeah, until Newsgator ads started showing up in my InfoWorld RSS subscription. Now I get to pull down ads, Yaaay!!!
Posted by Dare Obasanjo atI was unaware that Infoworld was a blog.
Posted by Mark atThe only reason to say blogs are anti-popup is because of RSS. However nothing stops folks from inserting ads into RSS (especially with hosting providers like Blogger), they just won't be as annoying as popups.
Posted by Dare Obasanjo atCould be. Several RSS aggregators are web-based, accept arbitrary HTML, and don't strip SCRIPT elements. Many people (Lord knows why) still use IE without third-party popup blockers. I'm surprised this hasn't been tried already.
Though instead of serving ads, it would be more fun to combine those facts with something like this:
Posted by Mark atGreg Reinacker has announced that he's advertising NewsGator on some of Infoworld's RSS feeds. There's already been some negative reaction. The question's academic for me, since I don't subscribe to any InfoWorld feeds, or any feeds from a ...
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Jonathan Angel: IDG's InfoWorld yesterday became the first publisher to incorporate advertising into its RSS (Rich Site Summary) feed, an important step in the medium's commercial viability. Of course, it is hardly breaking ...
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And it's not true. As an example, Macintouch has had text ads in their feed for a while now. The title of today's item is "Ad: Mac OS X Hints - the book". Nice and simple....
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