![]() ![]() ![]() He repurposed Frontier to be a sort of content-management system, except it ran as a desktop-based server app (and could still do the Mac scripting stuff). That's going way, way back.ĭave Winer originally wrote Frontier as a Mac scripting system, and I think he felt personally betrayed when Apple shipped AppleScript. Posted by Eyebrows McGee at 10:38 AM on Ap I do sometimes see publications that are just "headline - click through" - both major national ones and small special-interest blogs - but obviously they're not going to get my RSS subscription and then I just won't see any of their articles because they're so intent not giving you anything beyond the headline. I've also corresponded with a couple of those blogs' owners and said, "Huge fan, read via RSS, not sure if you know this but your picture caption goes into the RSS feed and eats up a ton of your characters, so I can't read the full article summary when you have a picture" or whatever and generally they've been very receptive to making it easier for RSS readers. (I don't always click through, though.)Īnyway, "you must click through to see my ads" has been pretty limited (in my experience) to small, special-interest blogs/websites where the advertising revenue allows them to create the high-quality niche work that I'm interested in, and they try to provide enough info to let me know whether to click through, so I don't mind. Only pretty rarely am I unsure if I ought to click through, or do I click through and go "meh, not interested." One irregularly-published webcomic I follow where the artist prefers to control how it displays on her site, which is fair. In both cases there's enough text (a paragraph or so) for me to decide if I want to click through. A couple of design-related smaller blogs want me to click through to their site to see the article, and a state politics blog (THE state politics blog, really) that's a one-man shop and he does an amazing job and he needs to serve you his ads to keep doing it. I follow a lot of feeds, and only a few do this. "Also, how many sites have just dropped RSS entirely because it interferes with their ability to serve ads? Or just serving news snippets with links to their walled garden articles?"
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |