Our news in RSS feed
Skip contentSubject: Please put your mobile phone news in an RSS feed
From: David L
Date: December 8, 2004
It seems only natural, in fact, more compelling than publishing the glossary in RSS. Are you going to do it (make an RSS feed from your news section)? It would be fantastically useful!
Reply:
Hi David,
Believe me, we would love to put our News Section out as an RSS feed. Our main interest in setting up the Mobile Phone Directory was to give out useful information to help guys like you.
However, there is a problem, and it is a pretty big one as far as we are concerned. To make this website survive we have to earn some income, and in our case this will come mainly from advertising, which relies on us attracting as many visitors as possible to our website. It took a lot of effort to set up our News Section, and one of the reasons we invested many hours into creating it was so that it would be a useful asset that would draw visitors to our site. If we put the News Section out as a RSS feed then there would be no need for people to visit our site to see it, and as a result our site might become unviable and disappear.
So David, I hope you will understand that there are practical reasons why we cannot turn our News Section into a RSS feed. But hey, you can come and read it anytime you want on our site, and you will be a very welcome and valued visitor. What we aim to do is provide more then just news on our site, and so I would like to think that we can provide you with other reasons to visit our site than just to read the latest news.
Anyhow, we are an open-minded and friendly group of people here at MPD, so if we can help you or provide a service that you need, then please drop us an e-mail because our site is aimed at people like you - after all, that's why we set it up.
Regards,
Mike S
Technical Consultant
