Comments on: Wanting the consequences of what we want
Sometimes we say inane things because we want something for nothing. Dumb.
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On the other hand I don't understand why media outlets like C/net are not embedding ads in their RSS feeds. I have seen ComputerWorld do it and I have feedburner doing it on my feeds. It can't be to hard and gives more impressions to sell.
- by balleyne May 12, 2008 1:23 AM PDT
- That's a bad excuse. As noted above, ads can be embedded in RSS feeds. The truncated feeds are a pain in the ass and make me less likely to stay subscribed to the blog (and therefore, less likely to continue to visit the website). If a full post feed was provided, I'd certainly still end up at the website, whether to comment, read the comments, when linking to it in a blog post, etc...
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(4 Comments)Providing truncated feeds for revenue purposes is short sighted.