I’m working on Bloggers4Labour-style ‘daily digest’ emails for Poblish, at the moment.

Here’s how they’ll work:

• When you click on the name of any Actor or Group in Poblish, you get a preview window listing their recent activities (e.g. the articles they’ve posted).
• Clicking the ‘Follow’ checkbox adds them to your ‘Followed’ channel, so you can see their activities on the Poblish home page.
• If you then click the ‘Include in Daily Digest’ checkbox, their activities will be listed in a daily email sent to your registered email address.

So, if you want an email, start to follow people and groups. You can un-follow them at any point, by unchecking the ‘Follow’ checkbox.

If you need a list of people and groups you’re currently following, there’s a list on your own Actor page, under the ‘Following…’ tab.

Q. Why not send everyone a digest of everyone’s activity over the past day, then?

A. Well, (a) there’ll be too much activity in future to make this feasible. When we’re aggregating hundreds of articles per hour, you’re unlikely to want to wade through all that on a daily basis. And (b), this gives you the freedom to select exactly what you want, and to toggle emails on and off. It’s so quick and easy to follow people and groups, so why create a brand new, cumbersome interface?

Hopefully this will all be up and running during the next couple of days.