Outdoor News Daily

Below we have developed a list of frequently asked questions. If you have further concerns please feel free to view our contact page and express those concerns or questions.

Some sites allow visitors to add comments to news topics. Is that a future prospect?

We have discussed future allowance of comments on news items but that would not be a basic visitor privelage. Due to the amount of comment spam the site would receive this privelage would be for registered members only. Also regarding this topic would be comment moderation where each comment would require approval before appearing on the site.

I don’t see a registration area anywhere. Can people register to add their own news?

Currently there is no open enrollment at Daily News Outdoors. In the event that we open a registration process, registered users would be restricted to adding comments to current articles. We would not be allowing users to add their own articles.

Can I subscribe to certain news topics and receive emails when those are updated?

If we open a registration in the future we would have the ability to email members specific news based on groups of interest. Currently we are not providing that function. We do provide an email based subscription for “all” of the news posted daily. News is delivered every day between 3 and 5 a.m. eastern time. The subscription service is handled via FeedBurner and can be found in the right-hand column or Subscribe to Outdoor News Daily by Email Here. Requirements include a verification of your intent to subscribe received through an activation email. If your browser is setup to receive data feeds with an automatic feed reader then by all means, grab our feed url and plug it into your reader and you will receive alerts each time we update. Our feed url can be found at the top right of the page where it says subscribe. You can also find the same option at the bottom of the page. The feed url is http://outdoornewsdaily.com/index.php/feed

What are the icons for that are found beneath each news article?

Those icons are for social bookmarking and sending that specific news item to a friend via email server. If you are currently registered with any of the social bookmarking sites, [ie: Digg, del.icio.us, stumbleUpon, Reddit, Newsvine, etc.] you can simply click the link in the dropdown menu noted by the Share This icon. From there you sign-in to your account and add the link back to our news item. The second tab in the same dropdown menu is for emailing an article to a friend. It’s basically the same as any email process. Add their email address, your name, and your address and click the Send It button. The recipient will receive an email with a brief message that you think this news item may be of interest to them. The system will also automatically attach the link back to the news item.

Could the categories also be divided into states to make it easier to find the news?

We entertained the idea of that very breakdown regarding the categories but those would also need many sub-categories to satisfy everyone. The final decision was to integrate specific news categories as you see here now. The quickest way to find your state information is through the search function. A simple query [ex:Texas] would return all news reports for the state of Texas. We have also created a State Specific page that allows a quick jump option to your latest categorized state news.

Can we submit our own news via email?

We encourage news submissions but keep in mind that we will publish only those that we feel are appropriate. Submissions that are geared only towards promotion are unlikely to appear within Outdoor News Daily.

Is there a script we can use to republish your news on our website?

If your site is equipped with an aggregate news feed reader then you have the ability to plug the feed url and begin displaying our news. The url you need has been posted above. If your site is not compatible with rss/xml feeds you have the option to use a simple javascript - see sample. You can request our javascript feed by using our contact form.

Do you plan to sell advertising space within your news website?

We will support the work involved with appropriate ads in the very near future. We currently have not made any decisions to offer advertising space to third party venues from the public.