Imagine my surprise this morning when my RSS Reader (Feedly now that Google Reader is being shutdown) told me that Dilbert online had changed some policies:
I can only imagine the rationale behind this is worthy of it’s own Dilbert skewering. The days of closed websites is over. The open web won. Corporate interests certainly have their own thoughts on “free” services such as RSS but only a few can survive in closed environments.
I for one can say with certainty that I will now not be reading Dilbert daily simply because it is uncommon for me to make special trips to web addresses that only have a single post per day. Maybe I’ll binge read the last 7 days on weekends but it’s unlikely. What’s more likely is that I’ll find something else to take it’s place in my morning RSS readings and not miss it all that much.
It’s too bad, because even a Dilbert that’s gone downhill a bit is one of the funniest things out there.
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