One of the many wonderful things about RSS feeds is that they are blissfully devoid of advertising. That may not be the case much longer. According to Wired News, “a new pilot program from FeedBurner embeds ads in the feeds of a number of the company’s content-publishing partners.” This is probably the begining of the end of our blissful existence. How could we be so foolish to think that advertisers would allow us to avoid visiting ad-laden sites by having the content syndicated? Between this and the legislation in Congress forbidding people from skipping advertisements in movies, I’m waiting for the day when there are armed guards in every home making sure we get our daily dose of commercials and ads.
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Meredith Farkas
11/18/2004
Meredith Farkas is a faculty librarian at Portland Community College in Oregon. From 2007-2021, she wrote the monthly column “Technology in Practice” for American Libraries. Meredith was honored in 2014 with the ACRL Instruction Section Innovation Award, in 2008 and 2011 with the WISE Excellence in Online Education Award and in 2009 with the LITA/Library Hi Tech award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology. She has been writing the blog Information Wants to be Free since 2004.
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