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May 06, 2003
RSS Corruption?
One of the many features I've enjoyed about RSS feeds is the presentation style simplicity. No visual distractions from changing images or bad design layouts. No having to readjust click patterns because the interface has changed. No possible confusion as to the beginning of an article due to interleaved ads. Just pure text with exactly what I've wanted to read. This is exactly what has made Google so nice to use, and partially a reason for it's popularity (search result accuracy coming in a distant first).
So why am I now starting to see a number of my favorite RSS feeds inserting advertisements into them? Is this the future of the RSS feed? To become a convoluted collection of text, some useful, some an advert?
I'd like to ask that this be put to rest right now and stopped by any of you considering this. There is a lot more I'd like to add to this, but I don't have the time at the moment. Stay tuned for full reasoning why this is bad... but in the meantime consider it a valid point.
Posted by Dan at May 6, 2003 04:53 PM