Married to the Sea (MTTS
) seems like a nice web comic (well, cross-clicking through the archives I found some episodes featuring the weird humor I appreciate in comics), until you read the FAQ:
We do not offer online syndication of TFD/ND/MTTS. You may not run a daily syndication or create/provide a public “feed” of TFD/ND/MTTS, RSS or otherwise.
[...] Online “syndication” deprives us of this income, as well as the ability to show new projects, bonus comics, and other additional content to our readers.
[...] You may not operate a daily “feed” of TFD/MTTS/ND.
Although I don’t think they actually may refrain anybody from checking the website for new submissions at intervals and automatically create a simple feed that only includes a link to the newest episode (so there’s nothing copyrighted in the feed).
But I really don’t like that attitude. Every popular web comic offers a feed, just as every remotely popular web comic offers a shop equipped with more-or-less witty and/or good-looking t-shirts and accessories. There is no reason, why the creators couldn’t advertise their shop or any specials in their feed… And the creators don’t seem like a .com-era
company, coming from a time where the number of page impressions
counted above everything…
As much as I dislike most aspects of the all-shiny Web 2.0
, the idea of feeds is quite brilliant — and, on second thought, the comic isn’t quite good enough to force me to visit the website manually every day…
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