Posts Tagged ‘seth godin’

As you no doubt know by now, we’re big fans of RSS. We’ve covered RSS extensively in the past, referring you to articles and tutorials that can help you get started with this very handy technology. If you’re still holding out, you might want to give Seth Godin’s blog post about RSS a gander. It’s not so much about the how, but more of the why. My favorite part:

And if you’re not a subscriber (to this blog and others) today is a great day to start. RSS is a little like radio. Every blog and many news services ‘broadcast’ a tiny little signal that you can’t hear, but your RSS reader can. (It’s like a radio tuner). You tell the RSS reader which blogs and news feeds you like, and whenever it senses that signal, it goes out and grabs the post for you. Quick and free. With a good reader, you can easily keep up with 100 blogs in less than an hour.

Ready to get started? We’ve written a few articles about how to get started, and pointed to other articles as well. If you’re in CRL, just stop by our offices and we’ll help you get set up. And maybe, if there’s interest, we might conduct a webinar on the topic for the SIM Network–what do you think?

Seth Godin is an expert marketer and entrepreneur and is much smarter than I. His blog is a must-add for your RSS reader. This morning, he’s posted some notes on Kindle–timely for us, as we learn more about the device and its implications on what we do at CRL.

Perhaps of more interest than Seth’s critique of the Kindle itself are his comments about how such a gadget could transform the reading experience as we know it. Kindle’s wireless capabilities (which I’ve sort of got working; more on that in another post) give readers full-time, real-time access to a network of fellow readers. Through this network, you might have access to other readers’ notes and highlights, and be able to participate in contextual discussions based on the electronic book–all directly from the device.

From our perspective, what does that mean for literacy as we know it?

Random thoughts about the Kindle from Seth’s Blog