Now, though, I’m out. I’m unsubscribing. It’s too much and it doesn’t fit anymore with my overall reading habits. It’s too much.
Most of the emails I subscribed to were aggregation-based, bringing together stories from a number of other sites into a single curated newsletter. So what I’ve been doing is subscribing to the RSS feeds for the sources that are most frequently popping up into the emails. That just factors more cleanly into my workflow, which includes sending stories from Digg Reader directly to Pocket, where I can deal with them later. Yes, email links can be clicked and saved via a Chrome bookmarklet for Pocket, but that doesn’t work super-well on mobile.
So I’m bucking the trend on email newsletters. I know they’re still the hot media trend but they’re not for me, at least not at the moment.