Last week, I posted my entry, Pittsburgh OC movie lackstuer. In this very last paragrah, I was asked them a suggestion the XML/RSS feed in their website. Now finally, they replied back:
Hmmm.. those question is delicious to answer their question. Here is my long email letter answer from John's question:
Sorry that I enter my question not clearly. Let me explain to you what RSS stands for. RSS stands for Rich Site Summary or sometimes called Really Simple Syndication. Technically, RSS is an XML-based format for syndication Web content. RSS is overwhelming popular sharing content (such as news headlines) without requiring readers to constantly visit a site to see what's new.
Several web sites currently offer RSS feeds (cnn.com, yahoo.com, msn.com, google.com, any blogs, etc.) Because they're automated, the feeds keep readers up-to-date without requiring them to subscribe to an e-mail newsletter (or expecting them to remember to visit throughout the day). In effect, RSS feeds allow readers to keep up with a site easily, and allow Web keepers to focus their energy on keeping their sites.
Now, why would I like to see RSS feed links in InSight Cinema website?
The first reason, today your website does not have RSS feed, and several visitors will spend much time going InSight Cinema website and look the dates and places for the upcoming OC movies. Some people like PAB (Patron Advisory Board) take their responsible to advertise the upcoming captioned movies in their area. They pass the advertiser to internet networking (website and email), deaf schools, and organizations & clubs. For example, take a look the impressive deaf local website, http://www.deafdc.com. They also have listing of open captioned movies in Maryland, Virginia and DC area. The webmaster spend their much time building the server-side scripting and database to add the data fields the listing of movies, places and times. The webmaster borrowed the listing information from your website, InSight Cinema! I'm sure the one and only webmaster will lose their motivation of doing the regular tasks in months or even in years.
Now, imagine that you have RSS in InSight website: For example, I might need to find the location nearest my hometown, and then grab the location URL RSS feed to customize this to post in our deaf local website once a time and the result will show the movie & date listing in our home location site changes automatically forever, ever.
You might need server-side scripting and database system to run RSS feed in dynamically websites. The PAB, fans and/or webmaster might get RSS URL address and the can customize their own different ways -- automated subscribe email groups, website, and personal blogrolling, which make you and their life much easier and save lot of time.
Hope it brightens up above your light bulb. Thank you for your time reading this entry.
David Fulmer
I'm sorry we did not get back to you sooner. We were trying to explore the question to best answer it.
What I can tell you right now is that our films are captioned by Cinetyp here in L.A., and we have been meeting with various film technology companies to explore other options for captioning. However, we do not do captions. We provide the outreach, marketing, and promotion of captioned films and act as a liaison between the studios, the theatre chains, and the patrons.
If you would like to explain to me what it is you'd like to use an RSS feed for, perhaps I can give you a more comprehensive response.
I would like to thank you for your interest in InSight Cinema.
John
InSight Cinema