Clean up your email: Turn email newsletters into an RSS feed with GMail

Several people I know subscribe to multiple email newsletters, but would prefer RSS because it’s more convenient and doesn’t clutter their inbox. Unfortunately, despite the Web 2.0 craze, a lot of good content still isn’t available via RSS. By the way, if you are a content provider that needs help syndicating your email newsletter as an RSS feed, I’m available for “nights and weekends” consulting.

There’s no reason you should be prevented you from getting your favorite email newsletters via RSS, thanks to this simple GMail hack. Here it is, step by step: (more…)

Stone Soup

I recently had some success with what might be called the Stone Soup strategy. I first came across this strategy in a book called Pragmatic Programmer. For those wondering what Stone Soup is, its a fable that goes something like this: (more…)