Despite the ribbing and ridicule that comes along with it, I am happy to admit that I’m a Wheel Watcher. I like puzzles, and mindless ones help me relax from a long day; even if I end up just trying to figure out how Vanna White hasn’t aged over the past 20 years.

Anyhow, my grandma tendencies sort of help to explain why it is that, when I hear people talk about “bankruptcy” of any kind, the first image that comes to mind is that big, black doomsday slice of the wheel. BANKRUPTCY - it’s a hearty dose of dumping your lode. You lose any of your earnings, vacations, and your turn, setting you back behind your opponents. No fun.

Bankruptcy often comes up in conversations (virtual or otherwise) about RSS feeds. You take a break from a few days of your feed reader and suddenly there are 786 unread posts for you to catch up on. With some sadness, you are met with the decision of investing time and resources into getting back in the loop, or declaring bankruptcy on your shiny, unopened, unread feed posts. How could you have prevented this?

Integral makes a product called Nouri.sh (http://nouri.sh/) that can help you avoid bankruptcy of this kind by delivering the feeds you want, when you want them, to your inbox. By aggregating these feeds into one email, you can stay in the one window of your inbox while getting the goodness of your choice of feeds in one convenient package. Just like Wheel of Fortune, you can take it one phrase at a time.

Even better, Nouri.sh can help you deliver the posts from YOUR RSS feed to people who also lack the time to keep up with another tab in their browser. You can set up Nouri.sh to deliver content from your blog, FriendFeed, Flickr, Digg—anything that you want to share with others. Then just set up a mailing list in Nouri.sh using the convenient interface provided, program the delivery of your emails, and—Voila!—you are helping to prevent your information from being a tossed away through feed reader bankruptcy. It’s almost like a free spin card! Who hasn’t wanted one of those?

Bankruptcy can happen to even the nicest, most connected individuals, so why not buy an ounce of prevention to save yourself a pound of trouble and Nouri.sh yourself and your customer with all those feeds?

Just don’t buy a vowel when you know it’s in the puzzle. Such a waste.

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