A way to automate reporting and backups

Automatic reporting
I had an idea and I think it will work. If it does, it will make things much easier for all of us. Every week the only thing you would need to send me is the link(s) to your comments on public discussion blogs. Everything within Blogger would reach me automatically.

To set this up, I'd like each of you to configure your blogs to automatically send me an email containing any blog entries or comments that are posted on your blog. I'll explain how below.

Automatic backups
Another major benefit of this system is that your work would be protected from accidental loss or deletion. I would have a copy of everything via email.

You may remember that during our last class, we discussed ways to make backup copies of your work. One of you suggested that we could simply set our blogs to do daily archiving. But I looked into the issue today, and apparently the archives are simply a way of organizing the presentation of what is currently in the database, and not a method of creating a separate backup copy of the data that would survive if the blog itself — or even part of it — were somehow deleted.

Although it's very unlikely that your blog would be deleted accidentally or otherwise lost, "unlikely" is not good enough. You need a way to create backups easily.

How to set it up (it's easy)

• Log into Blogger Dashboard, and on the Settings Tab, click Email, and enter this email address in the BlogSend Address field: blogbackup@nashinteractive.com
  
  This will automatically send me an email whenever you post an entry on your blog.
  
  If you want to see screenshots, here's the Blogger Help page. (To send emails to both your address and mine, refer to the footnote about Google Groups.)
• Next, on the Settings Tab, click Comments, and enter the same email address in the Comment Notification Address field: blogbackup@nashinteractive.com
  
  This sends me an email whenever anyone posts a comment to your blog. (more info.)

Please set this up as soon as possible an send me an email when you're done so I can test it. Thanks!

Note: For tomorrow's report, you still need to manually send links via email. As soon as everyone adds the blogbackup address to their blogs, we should be able to do it automatically.