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Weekly Wrapups Email Newsletter and RSS Feed

2007-03-18T03:23:33Z

Every Friday afternoon PST, Read/WriteWeb publishes a Weekly Wrapup of news, reviews and analysis from the past week. I know a lot of people are too busy with their jobs to keep up with Web tech news on a daily basis, so the Weekly Wrapup is the perfect opportunity for those people to catch up with the most relevant Web Tech news from the week.

We offer the Weekly Wrapup in an email newsletter and also as an RSS feed. Here is the form to subscribe to Read/WriteWeb's weekly email newsletter:

And here is the RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/readwriteweb/weekly

Incidentally, how much demand is there for a DAILY roundup of Web Tech news from around the blogosphere? If there is sufficient demand, than that is another option. Let us know in the comments...

Comment from Andrew A. Peterson on 2007-03-17

2007-03-18T03:59:13Z

I can see wanting an email weekly wrap-up if you're someone that isn't hip to RSS... But if you are hip to it, maybe an alternate feed would be cool, but not a recap of the week on the same feed.

I get enough redundancy in news just by being subscribed to so many blog feeds. I certainly don't need a roundup. That's what bookmarking (love del.icio.us) is for.

Comment from Stan Schroeder on 2007-03-18

2007-03-18T08:55:26Z

"how much demand is there for a DAILY roundup of Web Tech news from around the blogosphere?" - I still think that a good purely editorial site which does nothing except collects the day's best links to technology news as soon as they appear would walk all over all the aggregators/crowd wisdom sites. It would have to be very nicely designed though (think Popurls). It's one of the projects I've never got around to actually realize.

Comment from Julian on 2007-03-18

2007-03-18T23:26:17Z

I think a separate feed is a great idea. There's real merit in building a network of 'web 2.0 for executives' -- not just weekly but monthly. It'd be a PDF that the PA would print out.

Companies would pay $$$ for this briefing.

What's newsworthy? Let's be a little web 2.0 on it over here at RWW and let your audience vote on it... (I'd apply some editorial control of course but a good start)... ?

Comment from Richard MacManus on 2007-03-18

2007-03-19T01:35:25Z

Andrew, I like to think the weekly wrapup isn't redundant -- it's a nice way to look back on the week just past *and* highlight the reader reactions from the posts (I regularly note reader comments, for example). But then I'm sure not everyone would agree with me there.

Julian, that is indeed a direction I want to take R/WW. Stan hinted at how much work it would be to run a successful daily news site, so perhaps a better option for r/ww is to focus on the weekly and monthly wrapups and analysis.

Any other thoughts on this?

Comment from Joshua Kaufman on 2007-03-19

2007-03-19T23:08:12Z

Thanks, Richard. A weekly wrap-up is a great idea that I wish more higher volume blogs would start doing. Lifehacker has an "Editors Choice" feed which accomplishes something similar, but I think at the end of the week, I would rather get the summary. Cheers.