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eNewsletters and RSS

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2003 at 6:34 PM Category: Blogging, Meryl's Notes Blog, Tech No comments

Head Gnomie, Chris Pirillo, has been encouraging Lockergnome readers to drop the email newsletter and instead subscribe through RSS because many of the enewsetters were bouncing into the spam box or not even reaching subscribers because of the ISP preventing them from reaching their inboxes.

Steve Outing has written more on the topic in With E-mail Dying, RSS Offers Alternative as well as InternetNews.

I’ve been familiar with RSS ever since I played with Dave Winer’s Radio UserLand back in late 2001. Thanks to him, I learned about RSS and its power. I believe he started the news aggregator wave. I used Radio for about a year and liked its aggregator. The only reason I stopped using it is because I couldn’t use all of its powerful features and pay full price since I already established my blog with Movable Type and prefer it for blogging purposes.

Anyway, RSS is a great tool and it has a big and bright future ahead. But, does it replace eNewsletters? Not right now. Though, I’m using Feeddemon from the ever-talented Nick Bradbury and feeding it a ton of XML, RSS, and RDF links… I only check it a few times a week… and that’s only for a few resources out of the over hundreds in it. But, when I get a subscribed enewsletter in my emailbox, I read it every time. In other words, I can be as lazy as I wanna be and it’ll come to me. If I have to go to Feeddemon or another news reader, I might not ever see it because I am too busy and getting sidetracked by other things. Plus, there are so many news feeds, it is impossible to scan them all.

Putting on Freud cap, “And so what do you think?”