A little journal of what's happening behind the scenes of Carlo's Bootleg RSS Feedpalooza. What's new, what's to come, notifications of fresh feeds and so on.
ALL FEEDS MENTIONED HERE CAN BE FOUND AT THE MAIN SITE.
I was asked by Absath, the owner of the great and funny webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del, to immediately stop serving the unofficial RSS feed for his comic. His comic, his site, his rules, so the feed is gone. If you liked the comic, visit his site the old-fashioned way.
The original Feed Mercenary.
If yes, please consider that I am maintaining these scripts by hand. There is no automatic routine fixing broken feeds or setting up new ones, it's all done by myself. I am not making any money providing these feeds, and they are using up some real bandwidth here. Bandwidth is cheap, but as you can see in the stats, this site is pumping out quite a number of RSS feed updates per day. :)
I'm not hungry, I'm not starving, I'm not really broke, I just want to ask you to throw a couple of dimes into my hat if you like what I'm offering you here for free. You're not asked to pay for it, but to support it. If you're using any of my scraped feeds on a daily basis and/or you think it's a valuable service to you, then think about donating a dollar or two using the PayPal buttons below or taking a look at my Amazon.com wishlist and/or my Amazon.de wishlist.
Your call. I'm not begging, I'm not transforming this into a pay service, I'm just pointing out a way to say "thank you" in case you want to express that feeling. ;)
Thanks for reading all this. Have a good day!
7 Comments:
well... guess I dont read ctrl-alt-del anymore.
05 January, 2005 15:57
Damn... I liked that comic, but it takes too long to read my daily fix outside RSS (figuring out which was the last strip I saw etc...)
So I guess I have to agree with our anonymous friend :(
13 July, 2005 15:20
Best webcomic online and he doesn't even have an RSS feed. It's saddening. Oh well.
01 August, 2005 08:27
Absath is very... "anti-RSS" when it comes to his site. I find it sad, I've asked a couple of times, the question came up on the message boards a few times as well, and he just doesn't think a feed is necessary.
Well, too bad.
01 August, 2005 08:49
Is it so terrible to have to actually go to his site? I think CAD is a terrific comic and all his hard work is definetly work the petty effort on my part to go to his site and figure out where I left off.
11 November, 2005 04:14
That's not the point. The point is that ignoring RSS is foolish. And sad.
I mean, look at VGCats.com or Real Life (for example) -- I *love* these comics, but if it wasn't for the RSS feed I would forget to visit the sites ever again.
Now there is a feed, and I am notified when there is a new strip, and I click through to visit and read.
It's perfect. That's all I want. Doesn't take away ad revenue and doesn't give away intellectual property rights or whatever.
11 November, 2005 09:46
Why do you need to be reminded of when a new strip comes out? CAD has a new strip every monday, wednesday, friday and saturday, is that so hard to remember? And beyond that, how hard is it to place an easy to recah link somewhere to the page that takes you to "latest comic"? I mean come on, some of you people are taking laziness to a ridiculous and uneccessary new level.
If you like ctrl+alt+del so much, you should respect the fact that Tim Buckey (Author and Artist) prefers not to have an RSS feed, it's no big deal to be honest!
18 May, 2006 11:04
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