{"id":404,"date":"2005-11-18T13:52:29","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T20:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=404"},"modified":"2005-11-18T13:52:29","modified_gmt":"2005-11-18T20:52:29","slug":"feedblitz-turning-blogs-into-newsletters-an-easy-monkchips-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/feedblitz-turning-blogs-into-newsletters-an-easy-monkchips-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"FEEDblitz: turning blogs into newsletters. an easy monkchips fix."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV>I decided to try out <A href=\"http:\/\/www.feedblitz.com\/\">FEEDblitz<\/A>, a service designed to turn blog posts into a newsletter format automagically. Not everyone is a chiclet-head, or knows how to subscribe to a feed.<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>So now all you need to do is to enter your email address in the field to your left and go through a very simple registration. We will not share your addy with anyone else or use it for any other purpose without your express permission.<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>FEEDblitz benefited from its relationship with the exceedingly useful feed consolidation service, <A href=\"http:\/\/www.feedburner.com\/fb\/a\/home\">feedburner<\/A>, because otherwise I might never have heard of it. It was very easy to set the service up. <\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>On the other hand, when I try and customise the mailer screen it keeps crashing Firefox, so that is not so good. I am going to have to fiddle around with that. All in all though I am glad to introduce a new and easy channel for RedMonk content.<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>There are others out there that have also had <A href=\"http:\/\/blog.taragana.com\/index.php\/archive\/web-20-bloglet-and-feedblitz-competes-in-providing-abysmally-poor-service\/\">negative experiences<\/A>.<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>But the bottom line: as one of my most important customers told me this morning: &#8220;<STRONG>it makes life easier for people like me<\/STRONG>&#8220;.<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>Evidently it does. I only set the service up a couple of days ago and I am already seeing a couple of extra subscribers a day. Cool. It might reduce RedMonk.com passing traffic, but should increase my influence with my core audience. That&#8217;s a trade off I am more than happy to make.<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>On the other hand, for those of you that do want to start subscribing to, and managing, your own RSS and ATOM feeds I would still heartily recommend <A href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglines.com\/\">bloglines<\/A>. Here is a <A href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/wiki\/index.php?title=Read_Blogs_%28Using_Bloglines%29\">RedMonk tutorial<\/A> about getting the most out of the service.<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to try out FEEDblitz, a service designed to turn blog posts into a newsletter format automagically. Not everyone is a chiclet-head, or knows how to subscribe to a feed.&nbsp;So now all you need to do is to enter your email address in the field to your left and go through a very simple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-6w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}