December 1, 2005

URGENT Message for my Email Subscribers

If you have subscribed to receive this site's daily email alert then you are probably aware that the service is spotty at best. That's because I've been using Bloglet to power the service. No more. Starting today, your email alerts are coming courtesy of FeedBlitz. You don't have to do anything to continue receiving this service, however, in the next few days I'll be sending a separate email to each subscriber in an effort to determine which of the emails subscribed to the Bloglet service were fake or for spam purposes. (I've already deleted nearly 75 addresses that were, clearly, connected to porn or gambling websites or spam). If you wish to make sure you are not deleted from the FeedBlitz subscription list, email me - at bill-at-billhobbs.com - asap. Thank you.

P.S. For you blog publishers out there interested in FeedBlitz, they have a blog. BTW, I learned of FeedBlitz from FeedBlitz founder Phil Hollows, who emailed me earlier today...

Hollows wrote:

Hi Bill:

I saw your Bloglet problems and thought I'd write. I set up a new (4 months old tomorrow) service called FeedBlitz because of my frustration with Bloglet. Long story short: FeedBlitz is wildly successful and is everything Bloglet ever - and never - was. I saw that you have written for Corante - they are using FeedBlitz to power email subscriptions to their new hubs, launched this week.

You can compare FeedBlitz to Bloglet here (use as large a pinch of salt as you wish) http://www.feedblitz.com/bloglet.htm

Also, assuming that you haven't killed your Bloglet account entirely, FeedBlitz can seamlessly transfer all your subscribers (except any anonymous ones) over - no need for your email subscribers to resubscribe. Also, since you use ads and Amazon a lot on your site, you should know that FeedBlitz enables you to customize the look and feel of the emails so you can include your ads as they go out for only $4.95 per feed per month - that might be of interest to you as a future option.

I hope we'll see you on board at some point.

Regards,
Phil