Advertising
in RSS is just starting now, for all practical purposes. If we
wanted to, as an industry, reject the idea, we could.
When XSL stylesheet integrationbecomes
astandard featureacrossa majority ofRSS
readersthe issue becomes moot. There is no need for industry
widerejectionas this will ultimately come down to
choice: "To Filter" or "Not To Filter".
Adsense basedRSS Advertising as
currentlyimplemented (bearing in mind the fundamental intent
to perpetuate obtrusive advertising in a popular new realm) is
hillarious when you really come to think about it.
XML and Obtrusiveness are mutually exclusive.
This attempt to inject advertising into RSS may go down as one of
the greatest pieces of XML tutorial material of all time. It could
also serve as yet another example of how Web 2.0 is fundamentally
different from Web 1.0.
Will we ever truly comprehend the unadulterated
meaning of: "Free Will" ?