I’m a bit confused here. For just a few reasons.
First, can anyone tell me if ‘Shai Coggins’ appears anywhere on The News Show? As far as I can tell, no. But, you see, I’m subscribed to my name/s on Bloglines via Feedster, as one way for me to track linkbacks and quotes. Well, for some reason, The News Show kept coming up under my subscription on ‘Shai Coggins’. Not really sure why.
Then, my good friend Aileen told me via a comment in this post that her husband “saw me” on the CNN website while searching for news about the London bombings, etc. Huh? Not sure what that’s all about either. My only guess here is that there might be a case of mistaken identity (how or why is another matter as I know them both very well)?
Finally, I’m surprised to see SkyTV4PC.info as a referrer in the stats of FreshWave.TV. If it was just one or two referrals, I would’ve just ignored it. But, I’m getting a few visits so, I got curious. Unfortunately, the referrer link goes to a members-only, password-protected area, so I have no clue what that’s about too.
Guesses and/or leads, anyone?
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I see that The News Show (ADV) show up in every single one of my Feedster “ego-feeds”…could it be some weird insertion of ads that Feedster is doing to people who subscribe to key word search results?
it sucks and is annoying.
(It used to be something about Sun Microsystems webinars.)
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Thanks for the tip on that, Elisa. Yeah, it’s annoying when results like that come up. Especially since even when I mark it “read” – it keeps coming back. :-p
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Shai,
“The News Show” is an advertisement that we’re inserting in our feeds for the month. I apologize that it annoys you — we’ll keep trying to make the ads more valuable and less intrusive.
To try and let you know how it works from our perspective (in case you care):
– Thousands and thousands of people are clicking on the ads and seeming to enjoy CMP’s new site i.e. the News Show.
– The way the ad system is supposed to work is that the ad is only marked as unread if you have new results in your ego feed. In other words, it should never be the only reason Bloglines indicates that you should look at the feed. If it isn’t working that way, please email me a screenshot, and we’ll work to fix it.
Best,
ScottR
Feedster
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Scott,
Thanks for posting and sharing this here. Maybe it’s best if the ad will only come up after X number of times that new results show? I do get repeat showings in my “ego feeds” – even after I marked them read. And, this one is just a bit confusing.
And perhaps, Feedster can mark ads as advertisements? The way it’s presented right now, it’s not easy to know that these things are ads.
Anyway, thanks again.
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We’re working hard to make sure ego feed results come up only once. We need to fix that problem first (which is endemic across the entire RSS world), before we can implement your very reasonable suggestion.
We do mark our ads. As Elisa C commented above the headline is “The News Show (ADV)” — The “(ADV)” is the industry standard mark for an RSS Advertisement.
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