From: John Klein <zarkon at illrepute.org> >On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Joshua Kronengold wrote: > >@> This is also how I set up my unauthorized Megatokyo (a popular, and >@> good webcomic) rss feed -- it just pulls the name of the strip and a >@> link to the page where the strip is located, thus giving notification >@> of when the site is updated without either messing with the creator's >@> theoreticla rights or encouraging people to miss the ads and rants on >@> the site itself. > >And Megatokyo is a good example of why this works. You're saving yourself >significant effort if you're informed when it actually gets updated >instead of having to check constantly on the off chance... OK, I can understand that. In the case of Making Light, while there aren't new entries every day, there's a thriving community in the comment threads that is worth checking daily. But I can see how that would be useful for something like the "Hello Cthulhu" web-strip or Steve's own blog. -- David Goldfarb <*>|"Feeling smug about one's opinions is the very goldfarb at ocf.berkeley.edu | lifeblood of the Net." goldfarb at csua.berkeley.edu | -- Dawn Friedman