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Unusable RSS ads, courtesy of Jacob Nielsen

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Thanks Jacob, I really wanted this is life insurance ad in my RSS reader when I subscribed to your Alertbox RSS feed powered by 'News is Free' (but at a cost):

"Up to $250,000 in life insurance with inexpensive rates. Highly advanced life insurance system. Complete your application in less than 10 minutes. No blood or urine tests."

Jacob...why don't you supply your own feed directly so I don't have to delete these untargeted, irrelevant, and really unusable spam-bits?

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  • Anonymous
    January 31, 2005
    <blockquote><p>"Up to $250,000 in life insurance with inexpensive rates. Highly advanced life insurance system. Complete your application in less than 10 minutes. No blood or urine tests."</p>
    <p>Jacob...why don't you supply your own feed directly so I do

  • Anonymous
    January 31, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    January 31, 2005
    When you subscribe to a newsfeed, you are interested in what that person usually has to say, not in the ads his rss-provider supplies for "free".
    And indeed, how difficult is it to provide the rss-feed yourself? No matter what (scripting-)language or blogsoftware you use, there is an rss-generator at hand.

    So, I must agree with Alex: as a promotor of usable IT, News-is-Free falls out of the category.

  • Anonymous
    January 31, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    February 01, 2005
    To Paul D. Murphy:

    Paul, I don't think you got Alex's point.

    Jacob Nielsen is a prolific usability expert who trashes everything and everyone that's not to his, sometimes rather "strange", standards.

    As a marketer, for instance, I often find Jacob's advice practical from the usability point of view, but completely wrong from the marketing point of view.

    Anyway, Jacob, as a usability expert, should know better ... and I think that's Alex's point.

  • Anonymous
    February 13, 2005
    Why don't you just subscribe to his mailing list?

  • Anonymous
    March 09, 2006
    I just created an AlertBox RSS feed with FeedYes.com:

     http://www.feedyes.com/feed.php?f=vT9f590mLnxm5tFa

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