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mhidalgoon Guy Kawasaki's Newest Venture: Truemors

I am kinda disappointed in this from initial descriptions. Guy's writing seems to want to inspire people to change the world. I guess I always associated this with in positive way not in a crappy myspace way.

mhidalgoon Someone explain to me how RSS helps a content provider(blogs, digg, etc..) make money as they are turning traffic away from their site?

I totally see this... however I realized as I looked at my RSS feeds, google reader sucks in the whole article, if I really was curious about comments I might go, this is rare. I mean granted you get the second look, now that you subscribed those chances increase. But again, maybe I am totally clueless, but if the reader sucks in the whole article why go to the site. As you said in is world with information overload, why waste my time when I can aggregate all my interests and not go to the site. Here lies my problem, once google puts adsense on their reader , is the blogger getting the cut. Google news shows a snippet of the article, I totally see a synergistic relationship with traffic there, having trouble seeing this for RSS. In this case if google decides to monetize they are really getting away with robbery.

mhidalgoon Someone explain to me how RSS helps a content provider(blogs, digg, etc..) make money as they are turning traffic away from their site?

Just to further explain myself, if I use a free rss reader like google reader and no longer visit a site such as digg, what is the incentive here. Why isn't google sharing their revenue ? I understand with stuff like feedburner you are more than happy to see those subscriptions go up, but what does google reader to for you or the other free ones.