FeedBurner has launched a new e-mail subscription service for RSS feeds. The new product is a partnership with FeedBlitz.
Blog readers that are confused by RSS and the whole 'feed' thing can now receive e-mail updates from your blog. While this service is nothing new (many services offer the ability to receive e-mail updates) the consolidation within FeedBurner is nice. If you remember a few weeks ago they launched their PingShot service. FeedBurner is doing a good job of providing all the services that RSS provider would want/need. Now if only FeedBurner would offer traditional stats....hmmmm.
Update: FeedBlitz has an FAQ about the service on their blog.
To activate the service you need to visit the 'Publicize' tab in your FeedBurner account. If you have an active FeedBlitz account you're all set. If not, when you enter your e-mail and click 'activate' a FeedBlitz account is automatically created for you.
The next step is to copy/paste the subscription code into your blog template. The code is pasted below to test:
The primary admin for the service is over at FeedBlitz. From their interface you can control all aspects of the e-mail distribution. It you've ever run a list-serv it will look familiar, although much more simple than something like Lyris.
I'll be adding the service to my blog. We'll see how it goes.
