This is rad. I was just looking for something like this, but being able to generate feeds through a form, instead. Thanks OneNW for the posting.

“MailbyRSS is a FREE service for authoring RSS channels by email. It is ideal for organizations that wish to augment their opt-in e-mail campaigns with RSS channels, providing them a way to ensure that the information they publish reaches subscribers without being blocked by spam lists or filters. MailbyRSS accepts both text and rich content email, requires no new computer hardware or software, and is invoked by simply emailing content to a secure MailbyRSS account.”

I see how XML [rss, rdf, etc.] is this year’s mark on the web, and will be used here-on out. But, what about next year?

A prediction: Voice recognition and voice-to-text (and getting it to not sound like pac-man, the voice, when done in reverse, text-to-voice) will be used similar to the way they use RSS here. Similar, in the sense of sending data to be remotely posted to your, or other’s server, in XML. So, you can call your blog, and instead of it posting an audio file, it posts the text, like a normal blog entry. Then, the reverse will be popular, whereby you can listen to blogs like radio stations. I already saw a webpage where they were converting blogs into audio (I’ll try to dig up that link), but suffered the setback of the robot (pac-man) voice. I imagine being able to tune into blog stations on my portable device – digital phone, handheld, VOIP phone, etc – while sitting on the bus or hiking through the Peruvian jungle (but would I really want to?).

Then, once micropayments takes off, CNN, the NYTimes, and Joe Blogger can sell their web content to portable device users. Instead of listening to NPR, you can listen to your favorite paper, and no more hassle of trying to read a newspaper on a 100px by 100px screen. What about browsing, reading the index, the headlines? This will be handled by voice-activation menus over the phone, which will be pluggable into whatever blogging system for Joe Blogger to take advantage of such a system, too. So, instead of complaining about the person jabbering to their friend on the bus in an obnoxiously loud voice into their cell phone, you’ll be getting annoyed with people who can’t pick a section of the paper to listen to – channel surfers, essentially.