Advertisers Muscle Into RSS

I predicted this would happen over a year ago. It's surprising that it took this long. Wired reports that "a new pilot program from FeedBurner embeds ads in the feeds of a number of the company's content-publishing partners. And while some RSS users are screaming bloody murder, they're likely going to have to get used to the inevitable."

Good answer. I'd tell the music industry the same thing. It's inevitable.

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this is hardly new. A while

this is hardly new. A while ago 'a guy' offered a service to convert one type of content into an RSS feed. It injected some stuff into the results. Not much of a surprise that ad scum has noticed the potential to annoy people. But then we already have AdBlock and Proxomitron ;)