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18 Oct 2004 by Jason Fried
A lot of folks seem to despise email newsletters, but there have to be a few good ones out there. In this day and age of instant gratification blog this and blog that, what do you still look forward to receiving in your inbox at ir/regular intervals? Umm, and let’s keep it clean.
I’ll start. I still look forward to receiving the Good Experience Newsletter and Archidose (a weekly dose of architecture). Daily Candy seems to be getting a lot of play lately.
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18 Oct 2004 | David Schontzler said...
Speaking of clean, I like to keep my inbox clean. I've never been a fan of the newsletter. Now that there's RSS and aggregators I see even less of a need for them.
Subscriptions without dirtying my mailbox? Sign me up!
18 Oct 2004 | John Zeratsky said...
"I've never been a fan of the newsletter. Now that there's RSS and aggregators I see even less of a need for them."
Here, here!
My favorite emails are probably the notifications MT sends when someone comments on my weblog. Although I'd rather have those in a RSS feed too...
18 Oct 2004 | Peter Marquis-Kyle said...
I like getting the Plain Text Gazette. Sign up at the Plain Text website.
18 Oct 2004 | John Zeratsky said...
That was really clever spam, right there...
18 Oct 2004 | Peter Marquis-Kyle said...
Sorry, that should have been this link.
18 Oct 2004 | John Zeratsky said...
Ahh.... not spam after all :)
18 Oct 2004 | JH said...
Wow. A whole screen of text, once every six months?
I can't imagine how they keep it going.
Me, I still get NTK and the b3ta.com newsletter every Friday. They're very Friday-afternoon things.
18 Oct 2004 | Naina Redhu said...
I subscribe to a *large* number of *innovation*-related newsletters. My favorite being the Innovation Update by Innovaro. Another one with great and relevant innovation content is Report 103 by Jeffrey Baumgartner. Other newsletters I subscribe to are the Corporate Innovation newsletter by Imaginatik, the Thinksmart newsletters by Joyce Wycoff, the daily digests from HRGyan and Knowledge Management Society of India and AOK Net e-groups, and many more, which sometimes contain great nuggets - just *sometimes*!
18 Oct 2004 | Brad Hurley said...
I like David Pogue's weekly e-mail column from the NY Times; I always take time to read that when it comes in, and the e-mail has links to all the articles in that week's Circuits section.
I've subscribed to TidBITS for many years (weekly newsletter for Mac users), although it's been feeling stale to me lately, too self-referential (too many articles on Adam Engst's latest books etc.) and too much focus on niche products like outliners.
For me, anything more frequent than weekly is unlikely to be read. I'm much more likely to read something that comes out monthly or even quarterly. For example, I've dropped all my hard-copy magazine subscriptions except one: Granta, which comes out four times a year. I have time to savor the entire issue before the next one comes along.
18 Oct 2004 | a said...
Popbitch is the newsletter that makes having email worth it.
18 Oct 2004 | abc said...
I subscribe to the Web Design Update. It is a plain text email digest dedicated to disseminating news and information about web design and development with emphasis on elements of user experience, accessibility, web standards, CSS, events, evaluation and testing, information architecture, color, navigation, usability and more.
The digest typically goes out once a week as an adjunct to the Web Design Reference site, which is a meta-reference (nearly 3,000 links) of information and articles about web design and development.
18 Oct 2004 | Stefan Seiz said...
TidBits definitively. Additionaly i subscribe to lots of tech email-lists -- for instance about MacOS X Server, CommuniGatePro (which is my mailserver) -- and for that matter prefer them over RSS or such.
18 Oct 2004 | Stefan Seiz said...
Totaly unrelated but so funny i had to share this with you guys (advasorrynce): Via William Gibson:
"How many Bush administration officials does it take to change a light bulb?
None. Theres nothing wrong with that light bulb. There is no need to change anything. We made the right decision and nothing has happened to change our minds. People who criticize this light bulb now, just because it doesnt work anymore, supported us when we first screwed it in, and when these flip-floppers insist on saying that it is burned out, they are merely giving aid and encouragement to the Forces of Darkness.
-- John Cleese"
18 Oct 2004 | Bill Brown said...
I *heart* NewsScan Daily.
18 Oct 2004 | Chris Messina said...
19 Oct 2004 | chrispian said...
I've been looking at a lot of these lately because I started my own. I've also been a long time subscriber of a few, like SVN ;) I also really like the newsletters from www.contentbiz.com, www.sitepoint.com and ezine-tips.com. I've been getting very interested in newsletter design too.
19 Oct 2004 | Charlie said...
Monster Island / Nation / Planet updates.
19 Oct 2004 | Realish said...
If you're interested in environmental news and goings-on and don't have time to keep up with them on your own, there's no better email than those from Grist Magazine. They have a daily and a weekly.
