---
title: "Get an MSN alert whenever this blog updates"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/14/get-an-msn-alert-whenever-this-blog-updates.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/1/14/get-an-msn-alert-whenever-this-blog-updates.html"
published: "2005-01-14T11:54:00"
updated: "2005-01-14T11:54:00"
tags: ["Blogging"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I just added an alerts service to my blog after reading about it on Kevin Harder's blog. Supposedly, you should now be able to receive an alert on you MSN IM whenever my blog updates. That's pretty cool, and is an…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Get an MSN alert whenever this blog updates

By Roy Osherove January 14, 2005 In [Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging)

**Historical article** · Originally published January 14, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

I just added an alerts service to my blog after reading about it on Kevin Harder's blog. Supposedly, you should now be able to receive an alert on you MSN IM whenever my blog updates. That's pretty cool, and is an easier venue for RSS-less readers of my blog to know when I'm updated. The alert button is also on the top left side of my blog's main page.

 [![LiveMessage Alerts](https://osherove.com/img/wb/eb035a82_www.messagecast.net_mcwebsite_graphics_blog_alert_signup_eng.gif) 
_Subscribe by clicking here_](http://www.messagecast.net/alerts/login.do?PINID=2931&returnURL=http://www.ISerializable.com)

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

### Social

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- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/

### Contact

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/