What I want: Instant RSS to e-mail

I know that I preach the gospel of RSS feeds, Twitter, Snitter and the like, but what I really want is an instant RSS to e-mail agent/website.

Current options:
sendmerss.com
r-mail.org
feedblitz.com
rssfwd.com
feedburner.com

There are certain feeds that I would prefer to read via e-mail. Having a Treo and gmail IMAP accounts, it would be great to have instantaneous information for certain things. For instance, my future wife's Twitter feed. Having her updates e-mailed to me would be great. I don't want text messages or IM's.

Also, Facebook status updates. I don't ever sign on, but I subscribe to the RSS feed for my friends' status updates.

Knowing these things in real time seems important to me.

The above websites are lacking in one main area: speed.

R-mail.org is the only one that will deliver multiple e-mails a day. The rest are just a digest format for the last 24 hours. But, once again, r-mail is slow. I was receiving the individual r-mail feed e-mails hours after I would see them in Google Reader.

On a side note, I think Google Reader is also slow, because I see updates in Snitter way before the feed hits Google Reader. Perhaps it is a feedburner problem.

Maybe I could use a combination of Outlook 2007, which reads RSS feeds, and an auto forward rule? I haven't looked into that yet. Or maybe Thunderbird?

This goes in line with the concept of gmail being the center of your universe as written about by Steve Rubel: HERE

Anyway, being part of the "MTV generation" that is engrossed in social networking, real-time information is important. Look at the blogging community. Everyone wants to be the first to break a story whether it is about Britney Spears, the latest Apple product, or whatever else is hot at the time. Although, it may not be "breaking news" for anyone but me to see the latest status update for a friend, it may be important enough that I want to respond in a relevant time period.

So, if anyone has any ideas, please let me know.

Would you like a day without e-mail?

A recent Wall Street Journal article highlights employer practices of banning e-mails on Friday or weekends. The average number of e-mails sent a day is projected to go up to 47% per employee in 2007. About 1/3 of those surveys felt stressed by heavy e-mail volume. There are users who check e-mail 30 to 40 times an hour.

As the article points out, no e-mail Fridays would promote more "face time" between employees. That is obviously something on the decline in society with the increased use of e-mail, text messages, blackberries/smartphones, twitter (ok, maybe that last one isn't true), and the like. I bet everyone has that guy (or gal) in the office who either e-mails you or calls you from the next cube over. Or, what I think is even worse, across the room within your line of vision. If you think I am kidding, I have seen a coworker pick up his cell phone and call someone at the other end of a large room...

Although I own a smartphone (Treo 700p), I am occasionally out of contact with my e-mail and I'm ok with that. I definitely do not send 30 e-mails a day. Then again, while waiting in the airport security line this morning at 5:30 AM, everyone around me had their blackberries out as if they had been receiving e-mails for the last several hours. Somehow, I doubt it.

Well, hopefully, if people become worse at personal interaction, at least they may become better writers??

I also wonder if facebook, linkedin, twitter, and other such social networking will help the e-mail problem or just make it worse? They could be an alternative and decrease e-mail traffic or they could just be another way to communicate and therefore another thing to check all the time...