Last month, I wrote about using a reader to keep up with our blogs.
Today, we’re introducing a new feature: you can get our blogs delivered directly to your e-mail inbox. We’re using a new service called FeedBurner that gives us a bunch of new features, and one of them is e-mail delivery of our new posts.
Here’s how it works:
- Subscribe to the e-mail delivery service.
- You will get an e-mail asking you to confirm that you really want these blogs delivered to your inbox. (You can unsubscribe at any time—every e-mail has an “unsubscribe now” link in it, and yes, it really does work.)
- Once you confirm your subscription, every day at 3:00 AM, the FeedBurner service will send you an e-mail with the previous day’s blog posts in it. If there’s nothing new on the blogs that day, no e-mail will be sent.
There are two key differences between using a reader and using e-mail delivery:
- The e-mail delivery only occurs once a day; the reader gets updated throughout the day.
- The comments feed is not available for e-mail delivery. Considering that once-a-day e-mail delivery is kind of “stale” and blog comments are more interactive, it didn’t seem like a good fit for that sort of thing.
See you in your inbox!
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