Here are my recommendations for independent and site newsletters. These are the one I recommend that you check out first. If none of these catch your interest, the feel free to look at the 'other' list of newsletters to see if any of those meet your needs.

Independent Newsletters       Site Newsletters

Other Newsletters Newsletter Services

The challenge of newsletters is to provide frequent (daily/weekly) emails to users where each newsletter contains content that will be useful to the recipients. This especially means current information (usually technical). The newsletters generally try to create some sense of community, provide some sense of humor, humanize the site/owner, and provide (positive) feedback from readers of the newsletters.

While I find that newsletters often cover information that I've seen mentioned elsewhere, they also provide enough new material, particularly in-depth coverage of topics, to make it worth my while to read them.

Independent Newsletters

In my experience, the individual newsletters tend to be more valuable. They're longer, have a wider breadth, and just generally seem to have received more attention. Perhaps because the owner has strong financial incentives to create a good product, but also because he is not splitting his attention between a large website and the newsletter.

I also like my newsletters to be conversational in nature - as though the author is talking to me. Such newsletters not only provide useful technical content but are also more enjoyable to read.

• Windows Secrets
• Support Alert Newsletter

If you have any suggestions on newsletters to add to this list, please let me know.