Squeet - Free Email RSS Reader is probably just another RSS2Email service, but it got me thinking about what role this sort of service could play in an elearning (bleurggghhhh;-( environment....
1) Squeet is (probably another) RSS2email service (though it does allow you to select when and how emails are sent to you);
2) I don't know if it will aggregate feeds into a single email - but if it doesn't, I suppose you could always Suprglu a few sites and then Squeet the Suprglu'd feed;
3) (the OUSeful bit) - I doubt many OU students subscribe to RSS feeds,but I know a lot of them read OU FirstClass conferences. I wonder what the uptake would be if: a) relevant RSS feeds were mailed to course conferences; or b) students could sign up to news mailshots from their student homepage and have these sent direct to their personal Mailbox?
NB I did start to record this as an annotated bookmark that would be fed through my OUseful Feedburner feed , but I ran out of words in the delicious Descriptionfield, so I've copied the text over to thios blog instead.
However, if I had managed to keep the wordcount low enough to fit in the delicious bookmark Description field, subscribers who don't sub to the OUseful Feedburner feed would have missed out... (The content is the same - and more - to the feed from blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59...)
Posted by ajh59 at February 27, 2006 01:18 AM