De-Crapifiers

Posted on May 30, 2006
Filed Under Social Media |

I remember when people first started talking about splicing in advertising to RSS feeds, the second thought I had was “well this is just a bunch of XML so it should be hard to automate the process of stripping out the ads if you really wanted to”. Feedburner has done a great job of allowing publishers to customize their RSS feeds with a lot of extra stuff, and quite honestly it never occurred to me that people on mobile devices might find this annoying given relatively slow download speeds. Others may just want the basic content and are irritated with everything else.

Enter the Feedburner De-Moronizer, a script that strips out all the extras and delivers just the content. Brilliant but it’s kind of ironic that someone had to write a script to regress feeds back to where they started.

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