Today I found an interesting article on the benefits of using RSS with Web comics. One of the most obvious benefits would definitely have to be the ability to sift through the content before visiting the Website itself.

When I first looked into making a webcomic, back in 2002, the one thing I heard most often was, ‘Update regularly or don’t bother at all.’ The one canon rule I could suss out in webcomics was that you must update often, and you must hit your schedule every chance you could.

These days RSS (Really Simple Syndication) (picked the least ugly page with an explanation) has taken the thunder out of that sole commandment. In the process, it may have opened the field in a way unique to webcomics, allowing us to do more with serialization than we ever could in traditional media. On-demand was the first real revolution in online thinking– On-supply is the next, and in terms of theoretical discussion, we’re missing out on the potential. Blogs have gotten there, so have news services, but many webcomics are still stuck with outdated thinking that’s inhibiting their true potential. Source: Comixpedia