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No more Buzz Out Loud newsletter

We are getting rid of the Buzz Out Loud newsletter starting next Monday, February 18. There wasn't a huge amount of recipients of the newsletter, and when we asked about it on the show, most people who responded said that they wouldn't mind subscribing to the blog feed in its place.

First of all, you can always find the RSS feed for this blog in the right-hand column of this page. To save you some time, here it is as well.

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Read RSS feeds in any e-mail client

"You may be an Olympic-level jumper when it comes to leaping from reading your RSS feeds to reading your e-mail, but two Web sites now offer a way to eliminate the wasted time switching from one app to the other. RssFwdand R-Mail drive your feeds directly into your email, simplifying the need to have two separate programs open, or at least two tabs with Gmail and Google Reader." Trying to reduce the differences between reading e-mail and reading RSS feeds is a big but important task for those of us who jump from one to the other--in the way it's important for a jackrabbit to avoid a mountain lion. RssFwd and R-Mail are two Web-based solutions that drive your feeds directly into your e-mail, eliminating the need to have two separate programs open (or two tabs, in the case of Gmail and Google Reader).

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