Biz Bytes
Requesting permission to brag on a couple of our folks. Well, actually to pass along a compliment:
A subscriber to Biz Bytes writes: I like the timely voice of blunt sanity this newsletter's columnist brings into my work day. It's a quick bite of reason and common sense (without being placating) in a wildly, wildly busy day. All of these columns are to me cutting-edge/right-on-the-moment in observation. No wild pontificating like that Chris Matthews voice that's out there, either. Thanks for good work.
Biz Bytes is the Monday-through-Friday email newsletter that Dick Barron prepares and sends to subscribers. (Lanita Withers fills in when Dick's out.) It's a mix of financial news, advice and local achievers. (The above was NOT sent in by Dick's mother, either. She knows that Dick is pretty much a wild pontificator in person.)
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Is there an RSS feed?
Posted on November 19, 2008 5:24 PM
No. Pardon my ignorance -- I'm no techie -- can you have an RSS feed for an email newsletter?
Posted on November 19, 2008 5:58 PM
Sure. I've long tried to impress upon you how beneficial it would be to your information distribution if you can consider things like this in a paradigm that separates content from container.
In this case, such thinking would start with rejecting the presumptive definition that what Dick is publishing is an "email." That's the container. His thoughts, in writing, video, audio or pictures are the content. Were he to enter the content into an interface that was not itself a container (i.e. not an email program), it could be parsed from there for delivery through a number of channels: Email, twitter, RSS, SMS, web page and print. The process would be as easy as sending an email but with writing once and publishing through multiple channels automated.
Hope that helps.
Posted on November 22, 2008 9:51 AM
You have? Was I there?
Much of what Dick does is already in various containers -- the Web site and Twitter, both of which have RSS feeds. The wire stories he notes are not ones we can contractually provide feeds for.
The point is that we want people to subscribe to the email. It allows us to sell it to advertisers who want to reach an audience of people who want that information.
Posted on November 24, 2008 8:54 AM