Craigslist feed reader3/16/2023 ![]() ![]() How to do this: first, go to your local craigslist, and select “boats”. I set up a custom search at craigslist, and then use an RSS feed to just send the new listings to my RSS reader – so for that specific search parameter, I will never have to visit multiple craigslist sites to check for recent additions… the custom RSS feed will now do all the work for me. I use Google Reader, but any RSS feed reader will do the trick. If I were as ambitious and creative as Craig Newmark I would be working on it myself!įinally, a response to the Google item in this comment by Dave Hendricks at Buzz Machine, arguing that sooner or later the publishing world has to move past the current mass experiment of giving away its products for free.Okay, so maybe this is old news, but I just figured out how to do it a few weeks ago, and I absolutely love it so far. If local newspapers don't figure out a way to fill the gap, someone else will. So then how hard would it be to tie the fee to the advertiser to the actual number of hits? Let me throw out a wild guess here and say that newspapers, who are used to charging advertisers hundred of dollars to run an eighth page display ad one time, are loathe to consider an alternative that may only generate a fraction of that at first. ![]() Now it may well be that an article like that one doesn't generate a lot of hits. (The edition I follow covers the whole county.) Surely there is, or could easily be a mechanism to to associate local advertising with such an article. As an example, I specifically remember clicking on one of the RSS feed articles last week because it concerned my little suburban town. I suppose they still do, but with readership shrinking as it is, surely more and more of us are being missed. These are the kind of stores that filled the papers on Sundays and throughout the week with display advertising. Sure a lot of them are national chains, but it's hard to believe they can rely only on national advertising to generate foot traffic. ![]() There is a shopping mall just a few miles from my home, and I suppose if I went there the majority of the 150 or so stores there would be have signs in their windows touting some kind of sale or promotion. What little there is is not local at all. There is essentially no such advertising to be found there. Before I wrote this email to you, I decided to take a more careful look at the particular newspaper sites I get the feeds from and confirmed what I suspected. You ,when I read the paper versions I would flip past most of the ads, but occasionally something would catch my eye that might result in a trip to that store. Strangely enough, the one thing that I've realized I kind of miss is the local advertising. I no longer subscribe, but I do have two local papers' RSS feeds in my reader. Until the past five to ten years I always subscribed to my local newspaper in order to keep up on local affairs - things that affect me and issues of local politics that might affect how I vote in the local elections. However, I am willing to pay a few cents per story per day and I am sure that somehow, someday, someone will find a way to aggregate my pennies with everyone else's to give good journalists a good living.Īfter the jump, another reader's suggestion of a potential opportunity. I am a news junkie and I seriously worry about losing access to good journalism. I used to be a print subscriber to the SMH when their internet site caught up and I upgraded to a decent LCD monitor, it was easier to read online without having to consume and recycle a broadsheet containing 90% unconsumed waste. On the news side, the SMH is now about splashing electronic ads right in the middle of a story I might be reading: equally arrogant! This feels very much like a fat monopoly that will be overtaken by something better. (Imagine her customers looking through the ads for their house and not finding it!) The service was arrogant as well as unreliable and my wife wouldn't mind seeing the SMH go up in flames. The likelihood of the desired ad appearing in print, in the desired location, on the desired day was about 60%. Every Thursday she'd have to submit the ads for her properties to the Sydney Morning Herald who had a monopoly on real estate advertising - pre internet. My wife owns a boutique real estate agency in Sydney, Australia. ![]()
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