Lockergnome’s Ads
February 14th, 2004I just noticed that Lockergnome’s RSS Resource blog is starting to put ads in their feeds. Yuck.
While I have been set against ads in RSS Feeds, I guess I have to start weighing my options. Is the content important enough for me to overlook the ads? In this case, yes. In many other cases, no. I have to keep reminding myself that some people are out to make money with syndication while others (like me) don’t give a shit about that. Maybe I’m wrong. I wonder how many readers would unsubscribe to my feed if I put an ad in there. It would not be worth it to me if I would lose just one reader.
Here we go folks, onto the second generation of RSS. Subscribe at your own risk…
Update - Here’s another side of this story: If Library Journal or Infotoday would provide an RSS Feed for its articles (or table of contents) only on the premise that an ad would have to be in the feed, I would definitely not mind looking at the ad. If that’s what it would take for them to syndicate content, then so be it.