{"id":224,"date":"2016-01-12T15:57:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T20:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?page_id=224"},"modified":"2025-07-05T07:43:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T11:43:20","slug":"subscribe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/about\/subscribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Subscribe and Follow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I post new material to The Map Room<\/strong> as often as several times a week. If you don\u2019t want to miss anything, you should subscribe to the email digest or the RSS feed, or follow The Map Room<\/strong> on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email Digest<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The easiest way is to sign up for The Map Room<\/strong>\u2019s weekly email digest. It will mostly come out on Fridays (if I\u2019ve posted that week) and consist of the past week\u2019s posts in text-only form. There may also be occasional announcements at other times. To subscribe (or unsubscribe), enter your email address here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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You will receive an automated email asking you to confirm your subscription. Click on the included link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The email digest is powered by my internet service provider\u2019s announcement list tool. It\u2019s very<\/em> old school and a bit less easy to use than a third-party email marketing service, and does have some quirks, but it\u2019s far better, I think, on the privacy front (it\u2019s just plain text, with no formatting or tracking pixels).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RSS Feed<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Map Room<\/strong>\u2019s RSS feed<\/a> is available for those who prefer getting updates via an RSS newsreader app. (I recommend NetNewsWire<\/a> on the iPhone, iPad and Mac, but there are plenty of others out there. If you miss Google Reader, seek one of them out.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Social Media<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Map Room<\/strong>\u2019s social media footprint isn\u2019t what it used to be: I\u2019m no longer posting to Tumblr or Twitter. But new blog posts are still being automatically reposted to The Map Room\u2019s accounts on Bluesky<\/a> and Mastodon<\/a>. The Map Room also has a Facebook page<\/a>, to which I post updates manually when I remember to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem with social media is that their algorithms don\u2019t always let you see what you\u2019ve subscribed to. And they seem particularly keen on deemphasizing posts that link to outside sites like this one: a typical Facebook post reaches, at best, about five percent of my followers. If you really<\/em> don\u2019t want to miss anything, your best bet is to subscribe to the email digest, the RSS feed, or the Mastodon account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I post new material to The Map Room as often as several times a week. If you don\u2019t want to miss anything, you should subscribe to the email digest or the RSS feed, or follow… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-224","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/about\/","url_meta":{"origin":224,"position":0},"title":"About","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"30 December 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The Map Room\u00a0is a blog about maps that\u00a0covers everything from antique map collecting to the latest in geospatial technology. \"One of the finest map blogs on the Internet.\" \u2014Mike Parker,\u00a0Map Addict (2009) Jonathan Crowe started The Map Room in March\u00a02003 as an exercise in self-education. 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