FYI: At the request of a friend of mine today, I have added a way for you to "subscribe" to new posts from this blog. So if you would like to receive an email each time we make a post, then just submit your email address at the bottom of the blog. If you are on our list of "people we like", then we add you to an automatic distribution list for our posts. To help you make your decision, I have compiled a list of pros and cons:
Pros:
1. You no longer have to ride the emotional rollercoaster of checking our blog to see if we have revealed any new awe-inspiring truths, only to be letdown when you discover that we havn't posted in more than 3 hours. Now you know instantly whenever we post.
2. If you are checking your email, it is 0.8 seconds quicker to open the message from our blog than it is to click the "favorites" tab and then click our blog's website name. Over the course of a year you will have saved between 4 and 10 minutes of your life.
Cons:
3. Now when you want to make a comment, you have to click the link at the bottom of the email, AND then click "add comments" on the blog itself. This could potentially cancel out the time saved in #2 above, but definatly not #1.
4. More email in your inbox to read through. However, at least it is not spam, but something potentially awe-inspiring (or mind numbing, depending on who is writing the post that day ... Amy typically inspires awe in me and I'm sure others) ... aawwweee.
There you have it. If you can think of any other pros or cons, please post them ... for the benefit of all who are contemplating this decision. Please make your decisions wisely, as it may affect ... heck if you don't like it you can always unsubscribe later.
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This post actually inspires me to subscribe for Pro reason #1, and also inspires me to add the same thing to our blog... thanks!
okay, so how do you add that to your blog???
Friends, I'm not going to subscribe. The way the OSX bookmarks bar is set up on our Mac is far superior to the bookmarks menu on Windows. I will continue to check your blog every time I check my email, but I'll still be saving my 4-10 minutes. I'm going to use them at the end of the year to take a longer shower. -a
Erin,
It isn't as straight-forward as you might think. I spent some time trying to figure it out. Basically, you first should start a google group. Then in the group settings, click "promotion box" link. That is where you get the code to put in your blog for the subscription button. The last step is setting the blog email setting to the group email address. If you or your husband can't quite get it, I can help you out. I just played around with it for a long time until I figured it out.
fanks,
I envy your "hip" Mac. I think that this would be another great commercial with PC and MAC. Can you hear it ... "I can save 4 minutes a year which I use for extra shower time". You should sell them the idea ... I'll only require 30% of your reward.
Fanks and Villarreals, I think you should definitely put this in for a Mac/PC commercial - funny!
jesse, I'll let you use my idea and you can give me %50 for being brilliant.
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