So some of you may have been getting sporadic email updates from Bloglet at times when I updated this site. As you probably know, Bloglet has been incredibly unreliable lately; I’ve gotten comments from friends that they hadn’t gotten an update in weeks and they were worried that I had cut them off. It wasn’t me, I swear. Last week, I switched my email subscription service to FeedBlitz – you’ll notice the new subscription box on the side. Coincidentally, I got this email from Bloglet this morning:
Bloglet began as a hobby of mine to help manage the random blogs I’d read on a daily basis. This was back when words like "blog" and "rss" had yet to enter most people’s vocabulary.
Now "blogs" are being mentioned on the Daily Show, but Bloglet still remains a hobby. It’s obvious that I don’t have the time to turn this hobby into something that offers a fair level of service to users.
On the other hand, Phil and the team over at Feedblitz has been doing a great job building their blog-to-email product into a viable service. They’ve even built a Bloglet-to-Feedblitz converter. I recommend that any current users of Bloglet give them a try.
So here’s the deal. If you were a Bloglet subscriber, I tried to import you. If you have gotten a FeedBlitz email update, you’re in good shape and you don’t have to do anything. If not, I mistakenly thought your email was spam and you’ll have to resubscribe (oddly, there were a bunch of spam emails that "subscribed" to the Bloget update). So — let me know how it works, if you have any questions, etc. And enjoy the new feed update!