I like your idea, I guess I was looking for more

I do something similar. You can use twitter or a private (not publicly accessible blog) and use Feedburner to burn yourself a feed. Then use the email subscribe option of Feedburner to let people subscribe. To publish you can just tweet or if you’d like you can also write to your private blog and only allow referral url of feedburner if that what you want.

This is what I use when starting out and once I have enough subscribers I can roll it over to aweber very easily. Because I want people in my list to learn how to save money first when starting a business and then use the income to improve the business’s image.

great post, bring more good ideas. Thank you