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Ads in RSS Feeds

In the future, will we all need spam filters for our RSS feed readers too?

Chalk up another one to Clay’s “social software is stuff that gets spammed” theory.

Comments closed — Trackbacks closed RSS 2.0 feed for these comments This entry (permalink) was posted on Friday, February 4, 2005, at 14:49 by mote. Filed in meta.

3 Comments

  1. Paul

    I agree with you

    Posted on 06-Feb-05 at 17:15 | Permalink
  2. Nick Douglas

    Site-supporting ads aren’t spam. They’re made by the creator you subscribed to. The appropriate analogy is banner ads — an annoyance, but one more valid than spam.

    Posted on 06-Feb-05 at 17:16 | Permalink
  3. nick

    Nick Douglas is right in the most semantically narrow sense–these rss ads *are* more like banner ads than spam. I guess I was that these rss ads were “atomic pieces of information that increase the noise-to-signal ratio, for monetary gain”. And that’s what I consider spam.

    Not that I don’t want to support BoingBoing–but give me the option for micropayments or click-thrus for your banner ads any day–RSS ads in my feedreader client *feel* too much like spams in my email client even if they aren’t exactly the same animal.

    Posted on 06-Feb-05 at 17:24 | Permalink