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I read 0 newspapers // but I do subscribe to and read 100+ RSS feeds from blogs and other websites.

I haven’t bought a music CD in over a year // but I do listen to thousands of songs by numerous artists regularly via Pandora.

I rarely listen to talk radio // but I do have 8 – 10 podcasts that I listen to regularly.

I don’t know the phone numbers of friends like @davidrjohns, @mikemiz, @tjw1970 and @lundstudio // but I keep up with and converse with them regularly via Twitter.

On the surface, 4 insignificant facts about my life.  But they are actually indications of something that is quite significant.

Print, Music, Radio, Communications. Those are big, giant, foundational components of our culture and they are being significantly impacted by the internet in all kinds of crazy new ways.  And I think what we have seen is only the tip of the iceberg.  Exciting times.

Many of you probably already use Google Reader and understand how incredibly awesome it is.

But for those of you who haven’t jumped on the Google Reader bandwagon yet, check out this short video about Google Reader from the folks at Common Craft…….

I am curious.  Leave me a comment and let me know what method you use to read blogs……

- manually go to each blog

- use Google Reader

- use another feed reader (Bloglines, Newsgator, etc)

- email subscription

- other

The Go Big Always blog has a nice post about the ‘naysayers timeline of technology in the workplace’.

And a great follow-up post about ‘Norman Naysayer’. You might know a ‘Norman Naysayer’ or two or maybe you work with a whole team of ‘Normans’.

The ‘naysayers’ said…….

• there is no way email will work in the workplace

• we can’t let employees have internet access at work

• eCommerce? too risky

• Instant Messaging is too distracting for the workplace

And now, those same ‘naysayers’ are saying that there is no place for Social Software and Web 2.0 tools in the workplace.

My prediction…..

• Blogs, RSS feeds, podcasts will become a large part of internal corporate communications.
• Twitter-like tools will be used by groups of employees and project teams to keep everyone informed of what others are doing.
• Basecamp-like tools will be used by project teams for organizing, managing, and collaborating on projects.
• Some type of Facebook-like, LinkedIn-like tools will be used for internal networking.
• Employees will have personalized, customized home pages like iGoogle and Netvibes. Employees will be able to add modules/widgets to their home page that contain enterprise information, data, charts, and graphs that are tailored to their specific job function.

It won’t happen overnight. But, I promise you, the ‘naysayers’ will be proven wrong……again.

I have only been blogging for a few months, but I have been a blog reader for about 3 years.

Here are some blogs that I have discovered during that time that you might want to check out.

• everything designed – a brand new blog by Larry Lundstrom, Pastor of Innovation Technologies at my church, Fellowship of The Woodlands

• Entrepreneur In Training – a friend of mine blogs about his journey to launch a start-up company called Supplier View.

• Blogs that teach me, inspire me, and strengthen my faith – Perry Noble, Mark Batterson, Tony Morgan

• 2 ‘must read’ business blogs – Signal vs. Noise, Seth Godin

• A new favorite – Pete Wilson at withoutwax.tv

• Some cool blogs that people might not know about – Jenni Catron, Strategy Central