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Saturday, November 20, 2004
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 Saturday, November 20, 2004
started 11/20/2004; 4:15:58 AM - last post 11/20/2004; 5:37:20 AM
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Doc Searls - Saturday, November 20, 2004 
11/20/2004; 8:15:58 AM (reads: 5174, responses: 1)
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| | 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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curtis - Re: Saturday, November 20, 2004
11/20/2004; 9:37:20 AM (reads: 505, responses: 0)
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ugly, ugly fight. i too was most upset by seeing the terrified children with tears in their eyes.
what to do? under no circumstances should a player be justified in going into the stands. the player union contract with the league has to spell all of this out.
security needs to be stronger, and penalties need to be much harsher for abusive fans. it’s inexcusable for players to get hit with things, but there needs to be an acknowledgement that it’s going to happen once in a blue moon. it’s typically a pride injury, and not a physical one, a drawback to the job. likewise, there needs to be “fan law” that states a significant minimum penalty for chucking beers or batteries at players’ noggins.
rookies coming into the league need to know how to behave if in the same situation as artest was tonight. they need to know that the fan is going to be charged, and probably go to jail for a long time, and that if they go into the crowd, their suspension will be X number of months/years at a minimum. it’s gotta match the prospective risk of a full scale arena riot against 12 nba players.
big winner: the dude in the black shirt who artest & jackson mistakenly identified as the “cup-thrower". he’s gonna collect at least 1/2 a mil.
big loser: us…! it means ron artest’s new album is going to get that much more play…ugh!
curtis
thesportspod.com
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