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August 22, 2003

Feed Spam

I subscribe to about 30 RSS feeds, split between blogs and news sources. Today I saw the first instance of what I would consider "Feed Spam". It's in this ZDnet feed, and points to this URL. At least the title of the item started with "ADV:"; that's more respect than we get from email spammers.

Posted by Alex Harden on August 22, 2003 11:58 AM |

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I think we are going to see more and more of this. There is another site I like called PaidContent.org and this guy makes like $60k/year (so they say) on just his email newsletter. Now that he has converted to RSS he just puts the ads (also appropriately marked) right in the feed. I don't mind a bit. And they have to be completely excited because RSS is SO MUCH cheaper than email. ...as long as folks keep it marked so we can develop the same "banner blinders" as I have on websites.

Posted by: Gay Gilmore | August 22, 2003 12:53 PM

Alex, this is what I was referring to yesterday when we were talking about NFL feeds. I found quite a few that had advertisments in them. I was going to write a little script that striped the advertisements and republished the feed before I parsed it. Worse yet, the advertisement used the same tags as the regular headlines. So to strip it, it would of been a pain, so I went with a crappy feed. I was glad you made your feed because I di/arct feel like going through the hassle.

Posted by: Scotbuff | August 22, 2003 1:47 PM

"Bloody Vikings!"

Posted by: aharden | August 22, 2003 2:21 PM

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