06:15 PM
Internet These people just do NOT get IT!

These people just don't get it. The feed from your site is the tease, it's the headline on the paper that makes me dig a couple quarters out and buy out. The feed is the tease that gets me to your site (skip the fricking stupid registrations that are nothing but lies we make up anyway) to see your ads! If you start putting ads in the feeds, I won't ever be visiting your site because I won't be reading the feed anymore, I'll never see the teasers, I'll never see the ads in the feed and I'll never see your site anymore. I take the feeds to see what interesting content is at your site, advertising is not content!

Give me the feed without advertising and go work on better context-sensitive advertising at your site, then you'll not only get me to your site, you might even get me to click on the ads.

Sheesh. People laughed at that scene in Minority Report where the walls talked to Cruise's character, everywhere he looked was advertising all reaching out to grab him. I got shivers - it's not really science fiction.