We try to publish between five and seven pieces a day in
Progressive Charlestown – some we write, and some we share with you from other writers
we find interesting and provocative.
Because we use a blog format where the newest articles push
the older ones down the page, it’s easy to miss an article you might really want to read (whether you like
what we write or not is immaterial). That’s especially true if you don’t check
in every day because it doesn’t take too long before articles scroll over to
the next page.
The easiest way to make sure you don’t miss any of our
outrageous stuff, or our informative or public interest stuff, is to sign up
for one of the free connection services, which you’ll find by clicking the link
in the right-hand column that says “How
to be notified of new articles.”
You can sign up to get alerts via iGoogle, Twitter or
I prefer the daily e-mail summary that gives you a wrap-up
on the articles we published in the previous 24 hours. You get a summary, the
lead-in to each article, our crazy choice of graphics and lots of links to get
you to the rest of the story, presuming we get through your spam filter (check
your settings if you don’t get your first e-mail the day after you confirm your
sign-up).
It goes out at 3 AM. My colleague Tom Ferrio stays up every
night to send each one out by hand to make sure it hits your e-mail in-box
first thing in the morning.
It costs you nothing to sign up for any of these services.
Unlike our friends at Oppressive Charlestown, we don’t screen out people we
don’t like, as much as we’d like to. We don’t sell the addresses (who would
want them?), we will never use them for anything else and really don’t pay much
attention to them, since it’s all done automatically – except for Tom’s daily 3
AM chore.
When you sign up for the e-mail service, you get sent a
final confirmation that requires you to confirm that you really want to receive
the Progressive Charlestown daily summary and that somebody hasn’t signed you
up to yank your chain.
Here’s a sample of what the e-mail daily summary looks like:
I’m very old school and don’t Twitter or Facebook or carry a smart phone, so I can’t really
describe what our alerts look like in those media, but I’m sure they’re very
nice. And very convenient.
You really don’t want to miss reading Progressive
Charlestown. You never know whose name is going to show up. Could even be yours.
