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Deliverability.com makes it into marketing.alltop.com

I'm proud to announce that Deliverability.com has been selected as one of the top marketing blogs for Alltop.com.

Deliverability.com is the best blog that covers email deliverability and email marketing. It has regular contributors from all of the top email marketing companies and the prime source of news, rumors and commentary from the industry insiders.

Posting from TypePad iPhone app

I'm testing out the new TypePad iPhone application. This is a picture of the cookies I baked last night, taken and uploaded with my iPhone.

I'll be at the Barton Creek Apple store tomorrow at 7am if anyone wants to join me!

(I had to come back after posting this and reformat it from my computer to make the image smaller and remove some whitespace)

Some RSS belongs in my Inbox, some in my news reader

It seems like there are really 2 different kinds of RSS feeds for me. With many feeds I want to see every post as soon as it comes out and consciously decide to read it or delete it. It's not surprising that so many people choose to read their RSS in email by using a service like Feedburner or RSSFwd to get each individual blog posting delivered as an email message.

For example, I like enjoy reading the blogs of Marc Andreessen and David Byrne. I try to read every post. So it makes sense to have the arrive in my email where they will sit in my Inbox (actually I automatically file them into a folder with OtherInbox) until I read them or delete them.

Yet there are other types of feeds that are more like reading the newspaper. They are full of many different topics and I only want to read the ones that catch my eye or are the most popular. This is the kind of thing that people read in an RSS reader such as Google Reader or Bloglines. This is how I read the blogs of all of my competitors products - I just want to scan the recent headlines I don't have time to look at every single one and if they pile up then I just want to see the most recent ones.

I wonder which is more popular? Do most people read RSS feeds and blogs from their web browser, from a specialized news reader, or by subscribing to a Feedburner email? In the past I've always used the email option if it was available. Which do you prefer?

cross-posted from the OtherInbox blog

Austin blogs the mostest

We all know Austin is cool, but it turns out that Austin is the bloggiest, most tech-savvy, early-adopting city in the country. More likely to own a PDA, a DVR and yes, to blog!

Great legal blog for startups

Brian Spross has started a legal blog focused on technology startups... already some good stuff posted there! It's worth subscribing to!