Ok, now this is pretty cool. I set up an e-mail account at Bloglines and it automatically gets added to my list of subscriptions. Then I use that address when I create my Manila sites and voila, my notifications get sent to Bloglines and come out in feed form. That’s pretty cool considering a)it would clear out my e-mail inbox of all the posting notices I currently get, and b)I wouldn’t have to click through 300 different feeds from 300 different sites at my school to see what’s been posted. I could have it all in one easy to read feed! At least that’s the concept. The only downside I can see is that I wouldn’t be able to see which blogs have been posted to at a glance. I’d have to scan through all the e-mails to see what was up. Still, one feed vs. a few hundred? On the surface, that’s pretty tempting. And, of course, I could also make feeds for those rss-less e-mail subscriptions full of left wing propaganda that I subscribe to (assuming they don’t need a response-from-e-mail to validate it, though, what’s this? They’re working on that too??? I love Bloglines. Have I mentioned that lately? I do. Really. I’m downright giddy.)
Time to start experimenting…
We need to form a ‘Bloglines Admiration Society’ or something. Truly, are they not the best! Or maybe we should band together enough cash to nominate them for a Webby (http://www.webbyawards.com/main/submit/index.html – apparently $150USD to nominate a site). Anyways, almost every day they release something new and cool. If they turn this into a commercial play I will be soo disappointed, though if they priced it right they’ve almost hooked me enough to pay for it. Cheers, Scott.