In the first paragraph:

The feeds themselves are ads for the stories they link to, which are revenue-generators.

Now some points to think about:

1) He's saying the mainstream feeds are 100% ads already, yet there shouldn't be advertising. ???

2) By building up a stigmata around putting ads in RSS feeds, he's cutting of revenue streams for the smaller content creators who will probably not be approached by the larger advertiser. Especially as pod/vod-casting are driving up the costs of delivering content for various cutting edge providers.

3) With all the stories about Government/Corporate propoganda being packaged as "news", how's this for a concept, selling space in their print media, it gets picked up by the RSS feed, so they sell the click-thrus and get the advertising revenues from the banner ads. Not so Win-Win for me, more win-"Bend over and grab your ankles"

It sounds like a good way to keep broadcasting (In the broadest sense, not specifically using the public airwaves/cable connections) the only viable way to make a living in the content provider market and trying hard to make RSS a broadcast medium rather than a narrowcast medium.

Well, if you agree with Dave's assumption that unless you do an RSS feed exactly as he would that you're doomed to failure, then it makes sense. But I already subscribe to a number of RSS feeds that have ads in them, and most are done in a non-obnxious way and I have no problem with it.

RSS ads will follow the same trajectory as web ads. Some companies will use annoying ads that detract from the experiencing of reading the feed and paying the price in fewer people reading them or developing methods to block them while smart companies/individuals go with low-tech unobtrusive ads that add yet another revenue stream.

Dave makes a very good point about american businesses. They only care about making money, even if they're having negative impacts on society. They should stop that.

I rember when Dave predicted RSS feeds would prevent unwanted ads from reaching users. We can now see that he was wrong about that like he was about everything else. His misunderstanding of things that were unquestionably going to happen to RSS proves he does not truly understand how users view the the technology that he pretends he invented.