Comments on: Mark Gisleson is Getting Up in My Face

By: Mark Gisleson

Mark Gisleson — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:25:51 +0000

Glad to see this thread ended badly. It’s your toilet karma coming back on you dude.

By: The Other Mike

The Other Mike — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:02:45 +0000

So…what was the electric cord on the Vegas toilet for? Inquiring minds want to know?

–was it for powering a turbo turbine-like flush that would ensure even Britney’s period would disappear in an instance…hey, will you get some clicks outta that?
–if not, how about if it was for special snowboard package heater from The House! $199 will get it for you today! Does that include the boot dryer?

By: kohler

kohler — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:36:36 +0000

Peter, I think it’s being done on a monthly basis at Techmeme with their sponsored posts.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:16:00 +0000

Ed, what’s the ad/business model? Do I have to click on the ad for you to get paid or does it just have to be embedded in the page when I request it?

By: kohler

kohler — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:19:54 +0000

Moe, Valleywag has an option for full feeds with ads or truncated without ads, but you’re going to have to dig hard to find truncated with.

Mark, just riffing off your comment. I saw the jest in your post and went a different angle.

It looks like creating content that people are inspired to comment on gets people out of their readers as well. I imagine all of you read this site through RSS primarily. That didn’t stop you from commenting, and you may even come back to read follow-up comments, generating more than one page view per story.

Peter, I think we will start to see more advertising that actually is an RSS feed. For example, I could syndicate in the most recent headlines to a sidebar from a local business’ blog. This is probably limited to a few local bloggers today since few other local businesses maintain blogs.