Email Subscription will be removed, please subscribe via RSS

My poll finished with the result that five from five voting people prefer subscribing to a (or to my) blog via RSS feed. 5:0 for RSS feeds.
That was easy. Thanks guys!

Please note that I will remove the email subscription plugin and you will no longer receive my blog post alerts via email. Please switch over to my RSS feed which is at this address http://planetcola.com/feed/ or click that orange RSS icon at the very right end of your browser’s address bar…and you’ll be able to add my feed from there by adding it to your preferred feed reader.

Web feeds have some advantages compared to receiving frequently published content via email:

• When subscribing to a feed, users do not disclose their email address, so users are not increasing their exposure to threats associated with email: spam, viruses, phishing, and identity theft.
• If users want to stop receiving news, they do not have to send an “unsubscribe” request; users can simply remove the feed from their aggregator.
• The feed items are automatically “sorted” in the sense that each feed URL has its own sets of entries (unlike an email box, where all mails are in one big pile and email programs have to resort to complicated rules and pattern matching).

A “Feed Reader” is required for using Web Feeds. This tool works like an automated e-mail program, but no e-mail address is needed. The user subscribes to a particular web feed, and thereafter receives updated content, every time updating takes place. (…)

Feed readers are used in personalized home page services like iGoogle or My Yahoo or My MSN to put content such as news, weather and stock quotes appear on the user’s personal page. Content from other sites can also be added to that personalized page, again using feeds. (…)

Other web-based tools are primarily dedicated to feed-reading only. (missy adds: such as Bloglines or Google Reader, the last one is great if you already use a gmail account).

Opera, Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer 7.0, and many other web browsers allow receipts of feeds from the tool bar using Live Bookmarks(…) to integrate feed reading into a browser.

Finally, there are desktop-based feed readers, e.g. FeedDemon, NetNewsWire, Outlook 2007, Thunderbird.

[via Wikipedia]

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me and if you’re annoyed that I am going to switch off the email delivery…well…get in touch with RSS feeds and you’ll learn something new. You will love it anyway!

Sooo, this was the last post deliviered to my email subscribers. If you wonder where I am, type http://planetcola.com in your browser.

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