blitz-a-netta

Since I started blogging, a few friends have asked if I could email them when I put up a new post.  I love hearing that they want to keep up with my blog, but I never say yes because then I'd have to maintain a mailing list of blog readers and I already do that for my writing groups (and it's surprisingly time consuming) and it would probably wind up being just one more detail in a world gone wild with details that I don't want to think about or deal with.

So I tell these friends about RSS's cause I've heard other people talk about how that's a way to get blog updates, but I don't really know how to use them myself ... and although I also know that it's possible for one to "subscribe to this blog's feed" I don't get how those work either, so hell if I can explain it to tell them how to do it.

But now we can ALL rejoice because I just signed up for a cool new service called FeedBlitz that lets my vast readership sign up to have my posts emailed to them once a week.  (aren't you thrilled?  did that just MAKE your day?)  The email's will come to you via FeedBlitz (pretty much) formatted the way I set them up (a little of the layout appears to get lost in translation, but no biggie) and if you want, you can just click through on the email and be taken to the blog itself.  (and if you want to comment you have to click through ...)

The place you sign up for this fabulicious service is in the right hand column over there ... under the "recent posts" heading ... it's got a little window where you type in your email address, and underneath that window there's a button that says: "Get email updates."  You type in your email address, click on the button and that might be it. If not, I think after you click the button it'll take you to their site and you type in my URL (www.debcooperman.blogs.com) and THEN that's it.  Once you're signed up, you'll never miss another one of my scintillating musings about infinite deep-i-osity and what-not again.  Rejoice and sing; all is right with the world!

Oh yes, and as far as I know you'll be anonymous; I'm not alerted when people sign up ... FeedBlitz handles all the details (LOVE them!).  And if it IS possible for me to find out who has "subscribed", it's likely I won't figure out how ... (them pesky details again) ...

Comments

[maria]

This sounds great. I heard about Feedblitz a while back and bookmarked it so I could check it out later, of course, and haven't yet ... so thanks for doing the legwork, Deb. I'm going to sign up now to see how it works, then add it to my own blogs.

I didn't think Bloglines actually emailed out the post, though I know you can have a little 'notifier' icon in the lower-right-hand corner of your PC that goes bold (or maybe red) when there's a new post to one of your feeds. Then again, maybe they do have an option where you can receive the post by email and I just missed it. So much to keep up with these days in that fast, infinite (couldn't resist) Web, after all!

[Marilyn]

Clearly these are friends who aren't familiar with Bloglines. ;)