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Originally Posted by hyper
Actually it is the sponsors responsibility to sell the shit for you.
You send them targetted traffic, they convert it
this has been going on for the past umpteen years
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Yes, and no. Much as car sales. They make a pretty car, someone's interested in the car. It's up to the webmaster/car salesman to close the deal.
RSS feeds allow the 'new guy' or 'lazy bastard' or 'person who actually puts time into it' have a few generic bullet points and some general text regarding the content.
Sure, you know the car has four wheels, and she's got two tits and loves sex; these are obvious.
You still need to sell to them how great they'd look in the car with the top down, or just how much this black midget loves the white pole.
That's what my self-actualizing parody was referencing.
Most people use the RSS feeds because they want to put less effort in, and demand more of the sponsor.
RSS feeds are a great idea in concept, but they can be expensive to run because cheap-ass webmasters (to retort cyberxxx's 'only costs $100' statement) use awful scripts like RSS2HTML, or even Magpie with no caching: So each time that site gets a hit, your site has to serve up the XML to them, and if you're really unlucky, does it real time.
To compound this: Bandwidth is not always cheap, you want to be able to serve this from a machine which has direct access to read your database.
Finally, trying to support more features for people already whining to get more without putting any effort forth is not horribly easy. If you get 10 more sales a day from your big affiliates, that's great - but the other 3,000 who just installed WP and are feeding their blog network in real time with your data and bandwidth at their content are neither selling your product, or themselves. They're just playing the law of 'somebody wants porn' averages.