Russell Beattie’s RSS Ads Drive me Nuts
If you're in the market for a powerful and user friendly Help Desk solution, please take a look at my company's flagship product HelpSpot.I love Russell Beattie's weblog, but the ads in his RSS feed drives me crazy. Don't get me wrong, I think anyone with a popular product should be allowed to monetize that if they want to, but this format just doesn't work for me. On top of the fact that it intrudes on my pristine RSS environment is the issue that the ads rarely if ever match the content. Why is there an ad for Dell here?
How about a Sprint ad or something at least relevant? Personally I'd rather see Russell push some products he likes using Amazon or see if he can wrangle a sponsorship with a mobile startup like a game or mobile app company. Anything but these useless ads.
Discussion
He has "Notebook" in his weblog title 
Created by Krish on 04.12.2005 6:04 pm
Yeah, the ads bug me too. Russell's blog is the only one so far where I have stayed subscribed after the ads were introduced. His is the only one with good enough content
Every other feed that gets ads gets dropped.
Created by Michael Koziarski on 04.12.2005 6:04 pm
I guess it could be that Krish but then that doesn't say much for Feedburners algorithms huh?
Yep I've stayed with it but it really bugs me. He's been alot less prolific since joining Yahoo. Maybe he's keeping all the good stuff for them.
Created by Ian on 04.12.2005 6:04 pm
Advertising in Feeds
I'm not alone, "Ian Landsman is also annoyed by Russell Beatties in-feed ads":http://www.userscape.com/blog/2005/04/12/russell-beatties-rss-ads-drive-me-nuts/.
In feed ads have been showing up more frequently lately, and frankly there are a few p...
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Created by Koz Speaks on 04.12.2005 6:04 pm