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Sun Feb 01, 2009 at 10:12:03 AM EST
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| You may have heard that our friends at FITS News recently started a morning email blast service designed to deliver the day's headlines to loyal FITS Heads for a mere $20 a month (or $120 annually).
So why would anyone buy something they can already get for free, you ask? According to FITS:
Our Morning Blast is also customized, easily-navigable and - unlike the other guys - compiled on weekends. Plus we don't filter our search results to conform to any special interests' definition of "relevance," we lay it all out for you to surf at your leisure.
Sounds good. However, if like most folks, you can't afford to drop $120-240 per year on email updates, no worries. The FITS aggregator is also available online for FREE at http://macegroupllc.com/fitsnews/morningblast.html (screen shot below the flip).
That's right IJers, I kid you not. In their hurry to turn a profit on a service anyone using Google Reader or Wes Donehue can create for free, the crack FITS staff forgot to password protect their new pay-to-play aggregator site.
Brilliant strategery.
Now don't get me wrong, I don't begrudge Will Folks for trying to hustle and make some money. Aside from the fact that they're pulling from our IJ Quick Hits feed rather than our Front Page RSS, it looks like a decent enough site. All I'm saying is, from now on, Folks and friends might want to make sure everyone and their brother can't log on to their service before charging big bucks for something that even they unwittingly offer readers for free. |
| Jennifer Read :: Get your FITS News Morning Blast for FREE |
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