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With all the buzz about Web 2.0 — a richer, more interactive communication environment than the largely static model that most of us have been weaned on — it’s easy for some to assume that established tools are no longer useful. Among those is e-mail, which in recent years — owing in part to the maddening growth of spam, phishing and other related scourges — has fallen out of favor as a “killer app.” Blogs, RSS feeds, instant messaging, Wikis and other newer, sexier tools have rushed in to replace e-mail for various communication purposes.
Yet e-mail can still serve a valuable role, sometimes even in tandem with one of its wannabee replacements. While the number of blogs seems to be growing exponentially, not all potential readers may be eager to become routine users of RSS readers, or want to understand one syndication format from another–RSS from Atom. But e-mail they probably know and use.
So Feedblitz can help bridge the gap. In short, it’s a free service that turns blogs and feeds into e-mail messages–text-only or HTML (with graphics)–that are automatically sent to subscribers.
I’ve been testing it out on this blog and like the concept. So now I’m going to expand the experiment and offer a simple way for readers to sign up to receive an e-mailed version of every new Acro bytes post. You can either use the form directly below, or link to my sign-up page at Feedblitz. You don’t even need to register at Feedblitz — simply enter your e-mail address (they state it won’t be used for other purposes), then respond to the confirming e-mail message.
