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Saturday, November 20, 2004
No time 
| | Since I think Ads in RSS is inevitable, we should be arguing about finding an approach that mirrors this rather than whether they should be there at all. The Ads should be unobtrusive, and well targeted. I don't think that creating dummy items answers this. Neither do I think that leaving it to the aggregator works. ISTM that the best approach is a simple, short text ad added to the end of the description.... |
| | I'm going to try and create a proof of concept to see how well this works by using the GET call to AdSense and then stripping out the important bits from the Ad (title, link and text) before inserting it into RSS. |
| | My RS3 project scoops out ads of all kinds from RSS feeds. This includes ads on the pages that RSS items link to. Try it out at SourceForge or look at this semi-live sample. RS3 removes ads from RSS feeds based on an RSS item's linked URL, and potentially the title and/or content of the description of that item. Furthermore, during the scraping process, it weeds out only the guts of an article and removes about 99% of ads, images, banners, and even adSense stuff. It's just the guts. Until I'm outsmarted at least. |
| | The question was, How long before somebody designs an RSS newsreader that blocks ads in RSS feeds? |
Play brawl
| | The Fight in Detroit last night changed the NBA game forever. For all the punching and chair throwing (it's lucky nobody got killed, much less injured), the image that will stay in my head is of a boy crying in the arms of a man (presumably his dad, but I dunno). The kid had come to see a game and found himself in the middle of a frightening crime scene. |
| | I've been to a lot of basketball games in my life, including quite a few pro games (I had shares of season tickets to the Golden State Warriors for a number of years); and I've never seen anything like this. If we're lucky, the first will be the last. |
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