The Media Drop

Because everyone needs features and things added to their blog’s publishing schedule, I’ve added “seen in my RSS reader,” which will randomly report on things that were just too good to be true.
Enjoy this one. Awww, poor Carson Palmer.

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Hey Business Wire, you know that I love you, but what’s up with your feeds only having the first few words of any press release? Makes it kind of annoying while I’m traveling to not be able to see whole items. Just a thought.
Oh, and PRN, what’s up with the feeds I have for you? […]

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Okay, so those are some not-so-good numbers in my RSS reader from the Chicago Tribune… 7 wonders, okay, 5 convicted, 4 dead, 2 killed, ugh.

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Just posted something over at my work blog that’s relevant to most of you media hounds - regarding RSS feeds for media outlets you subscribe to, and what kind of information you would like to see in your RSS feeds.

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Dear Baltimore Sun,
The 468×60 banners that you’re currently running after every single entry in your RSS feeds (that aren’t even excerpt, are only one line) are severely annoying when reading them in my FeedDemon. Just my two cents.
Thanks,
Tom

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Dave Winer mentioned on Friday that he’d be unsubscribing from BusinessWeek’s RSS feeds soon, because of the volume of ads that are showing up. This isn’t the only example of complaints I’m hearing about this right now, hence this site’s using of them every third entry - but it’s going to be a big concern, […]

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Just read over at Lost Remote that PR Newswire has (finally) gotten up to speed with regard to its RSS feeds. Intead of just one fire hydrant-hookup RSS feed with the last (n) press releases, you can now subscribe to a number of nifty feeds broken up by news type, industry, or drill down within […]

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