Email updates update OK, so, given that no-one claiming to read this blog through email updates said 'please don't take away the email updates' I'm guessing that, unlike others, I am either an almost entirely RSS read blog or that nobody who reads this through email cares.
Added with the fact that email updates don't really seem to work as well as RSS (for a myriad of reasons) and are probably better for 'large' type items (like Clay Shirky's NEC list) my conclusion (if anyone cares) is that the next version of this weblog won't have email updates but it will have a mailing list for 'big ticket' items (which I hope to write more of in the future, in a separate category, also with a webfeed).
Indeed, I am coming round to thinking that email works for resource hubs like Stephen or Maish (whom I was reading for a long time before I even heard of RSS) and as I'm not really wanting to be one of them (how did you guess? ;o) it wouldn't really work for me anyway. Who would want an email each day fully of general opinion, rants and miscellaney... somehow it seems better in your newsreader :o)
And as the kind of communication I'm hoping to be able to facilitate for others in our University through webpublishing doesn't fit with the 'newsletter' format it probably makes sense that I don't spend to much time worrying about blog > email subscriptions anyway.
So email updates for weblogs goes outta the window and is replaiced by good o' mailing list technology (eek... gottafigure that out now!), however, I would like optional email updates for comments though, really really (RSS feels to heavyweight for these)... so my next challenge is to learn Wordpress well enough to try and find & implement a 'receive by email new comments to this post' plugin.
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