“The only way to make money online is by selling porn or tshirts.”
–Loose paraphrase of something I heard on the web.
Four out of the seven paid sponsorships on Boing Boing are for tshirt companies, zeroboutique.com (high art tees), Spreadshirt (custom tees), Defunker (ironic art tees), Busted Tees (punny tees). Which begs the question: Neighborhoodies (lo-fi custom tees) and American Apparel (sweatshop-free tees), where art thou? And if you reload you’ll also see diesel sweeties (self-described indie tees) appear at the top.
Who knew there were so many tshirt niches all of a sudden? I’m going to have nightmares filled with Manhattan sweatlofts crowded with dozens of High Life drinking, liberal arts educated twentysomethings slaving over screen printers late into the night. Is this Web 2.0?
Google does its best to provide context relevant ads, wringing the profits out of the long tail, of which I assume the Happy Mutants LLC only sees drips and drops. Also in blue is an ad for a recent article in Wired, which probably only benefits Wired’s bottom line by edging up their own ad impressions and click-throughs. Oh, and there’s also an ad for that little DIY magazine that could produced by the company I work for.
The ads in purple on the left are all self-promotions, which don’t really count since they don’t cost nobody nothing.
i went from blogger to movabletype to wordpress and i’m digging it very much. i’m half of the dawn and drew podcast and wasn’t sure if you know about podcasting or not, but all of adam curry’s podshow affiliates are using wordpress across the network. i’m in the process of redoing adam’s site in wordpress now.
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Jon Udell: What I like most about Atom is its careful delineation of the kinds of content that can be included in a feed, including: plain text, HTML, XHTML, XML, and externally-referenced resources.
James M Snell: Some are under the false impression that Atom requires that all extensions must be passed through the IETF ratification process. This is absolutely incorrect. Atom 1.0 can be extended in exactly the same manner as RSS 2.0.
RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 compared: The RSS 2.0 specification is copyrighted by Harvard University and is frozen. No significant changes can be made and it is intended that future work be done under a different name; Atom is one example of such work.
Rogers Cadenhead: And I for one welcome our new syndication overlords.
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And another great quote from Dare on ads in feeds:
Scott Rafer of Feedster said that he agreed with Microsoft’s presentation from the previous day that Subscribing is a new paradigm that has come after Browsing and Searching for content. Although we have figured out how to provide ads to support Browse & Search scenarios we are still experimenting with how to provide ads to support the Subscribe scenarios.
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