Comments on: Confused http://www.shaicoggins.com/confused/ Digital Lifestyle for Creative, Content & Community Folks Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:57:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Scott Rafer http://www.shaicoggins.com/confused/comment-page-1/#comment-216 Scott Rafer Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:15:59 +0000 http://www.shaicoggins.com/wordpress/?p=87#comment-216 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. 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.

]]> By: Shai http://www.shaicoggins.com/confused/comment-page-1/#comment-215 Shai Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:48:46 +0000 http://www.shaicoggins.com/wordpress/?p=87#comment-215 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. 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.

]]> By: Scott Rafer http://www.shaicoggins.com/confused/comment-page-1/#comment-214 Scott Rafer Thu, 14 Jul 2005 07:15:07 +0000 http://www.shaicoggins.com/wordpress/?p=87#comment-214 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 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

]]> By: Shai Coggins http://www.shaicoggins.com/confused/comment-page-1/#comment-213 Shai Coggins Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:15:55 +0000 http://www.shaicoggins.com/wordpress/?p=87#comment-213 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 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

]]> By: Elisa Camahort http://www.shaicoggins.com/confused/comment-page-1/#comment-212 Elisa Camahort Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:12:30 +0000 http://www.shaicoggins.com/wordpress/?p=87#comment-212 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.) 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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