on Apr 27th, 2007Subscribing to your favorite blogs by mail….
There are a lot of blogs out there and many that you want to catch up on, but given the amount of time you have left for your personal activity, you miss out on some of the most important blogs, news etc. Its also a pain to visit each and every blog to read about the new articles, although RSS has made life easier, many still don’t know the in and outs of it and the various RSS readers. Just as a suggestion, if you are looking for a thin reader try Google Reader and for a thick client, try Mozilla’s Thunderbird. So what do you in these cases; why not get your blogs, news, updates via email.
” Hey that sounds cool. In my office people will think Im reading mail but I will actually be reading my favorite blog , awesome :-)”
Now there are a couple of services that you could probably use for this purpose. I shall list them down in no particular order of preference.
Feedburner provides all the above with also additional features like traffic analysis. Feedburners feed is the best service they offer in which your blogs RSS feeds go through feedburner which in turn gives you stats on your readers and content. Apart from that feedburner provides you with a host of wonderful services which include publicizing, monetizing and marketing your blogs. It would be my first choice for any feed related activities.
Feedblitz provides you your updates by mail, if you are a blog publisher you can add their subscribe by mail widget on your sidebar, just like mine( look on the left). Apart from that you also get a link that you can forward to people where people can subscribe to your posts.
R - Mail, the service was recently acquired by NBC Universal also provides a similar RSS to mail service, the service already has 50,000 users who have 100,000 subscriptions.