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June 15, 2010

Reading Me

The number of different ways to read my essays, commentaries, and links has grown recently. Here's the rundown:

You can read my writings daily on my blog.
These are reprinted on my Facebook page.
They are also reprinted on my LiveJournal feed.
You can follow them on Twitter.
And you can subscribe to the RSS feed, both full text and excerpts.
Finally, you can read the same writing aggregated once a month and e-mailed directly to you: Crypto-Gram.

I think that about covers it for useful distribution formats right now.

EDITED TO ADD (6/20): One more; there's a Crypto-Gram podcast.

Posted on June 15, 2010 at 1:05 PM • 25 Comments

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I think you need to keep expanding your range. How about air-dropped propaganda leaflets? Singing telegrams? Direct transmissions to the dental fillings of schizoaffectives? Interpretive dance?

Posted by: Evan Harper at June 15, 2010 1:39 PM

I say post the most recent blog entry or article on stall doors in TSA restrooms.

Posted by: HJohn at June 15, 2010 1:42 PM

Can you snail mail me a printout of all your essays and posts? Thanks.

Posted by: Joel Odom at June 15, 2010 1:51 PM

What, no identica?

Freedom hater!

Posted by: chuck at June 15, 2010 2:07 PM

...and we can meta-read you through your other followers.

Posted by: aikimark at June 15, 2010 2:39 PM

"I think that about covers it for useful distribution formats right now."

Let's try a little harder, shall we?

Wheaties boxes.

Inflight magazines.

Pleasant but persistent young men in orange robes handing out copies of _Beyond Fear_ to people waiting in the TSA lines?

"Best of The Bruce" audio compilations on 8-track and Elcaset!

Those cheap little newsprint fliers the marginally employed hand out on street corners in Las Vegas (At least they used; I haven't had to visit there in an agreeably long time).

I'm sure there are others...

Posted by: mcb at June 15, 2010 2:41 PM

Well, this is nothing new. After you get people distributing links to your articles in IRC or creating new topics to the forums, that would be magic.

Posted by: Lauri L. at June 15, 2010 2:49 PM

Posters... like the one linked to my name, below (which I scrounged from another commenter here whose brilliance I admire even if I can't recall his name) put on billboards (there are a lot of 'em down here in Florida for rent, y'know) with a nice little snippet for the rest of the 'board.

Somehow I don't think Bruce will have to duplicate Ted Kaczynski in circulating his "Sanity Manifesto" since it is the "conventional security" folks who are delivering bombs in order to maintain the atmos-fear.

Posted by: John Campbell at June 15, 2010 2:53 PM

Hmmmmm...

Have you considered a PodCast? Maybe some of us want to hear your speeches, too...

Posted by: John Campbell at June 15, 2010 2:56 PM

Two Words: Carrier Pigeon.

Posted by: Liam at June 15, 2010 3:29 PM

You included the LiveJournal feed, but missed the Dreamwidth feed:
http://bruce-schneier-feed.dreamwidth.org/

I'm sure there are other similar places to find the feed.

Posted by: Rob Funk at June 15, 2010 3:52 PM

uhhhh...sandwich boards?

AND I'd stand you to a beer.

Posted by: BF Skinner at June 15, 2010 5:03 PM

I suppose that confirms that my search will never turn up Schneier Fortune Cookies?!

"It seems pretty clear that the program only catches criminals, and no terrorists."

Posted by: peri at June 15, 2010 6:08 PM

"It seems pretty clear that the program only catches criminals, and no terrorists."

... post 9/11

Posted by: rudy giuliani at June 15, 2010 6:12 PM

@ John Campbell,

"... Have you considered a PodCast? Maybe some of us want to hear your speeches, too."

Err maybe not... You know what will happen to it.

It will be edited and put up on Utube as the sound track to that old black and white movie of the "Seven Samari" or worse the clip of Hitler doing the "Nuremberg gig"

Posted by: Clive Robinson at June 15, 2010 8:24 PM

You could always encrypt stuff with a one-time pad and have it read over a shortwave numbers station.

Posted by: WWVB at June 15, 2010 8:44 PM

Too cheap to spring for a Facebook banner ad? Sheesh...

Posted by: Steve Friedl at June 15, 2010 11:37 PM

I spent most of my days reading your blogs. I rarely have time to work. And even sleeping is becoming a problem. :-)

Posted by: Abie at June 16, 2010 1:04 AM

I agree with Liam but I'm intrigued as to which format is most popular...

Posted by: uk visa at June 16, 2010 2:11 AM

Edison drum, encased in a protective coconut shell delivered by two African Swallows.

Or was it European?

Posted by: Thomas at June 16, 2010 4:19 AM

Have Fiona Bruce them read out on the BBC news!

Posted by: Dave at June 16, 2010 4:25 AM

@peri and @Dave FTW

Posted by: BF Skinner at June 16, 2010 6:31 AM

The blog reading community needs to sign up for Bruce's essays. We can do dramatic readings and upload them to YouTube. That captures the video format.

Posted by: Pat Cahalan at June 16, 2010 9:19 AM

Don't forget Google Reader! If you have a gmail account, just add your address "http://www.schneier.com/blog/index.rdf" to your subscriptions in google reader and a listing of all your posts in full come up. It's how I've been reading your posts for over the last year.
The perk to this, is that I can keep all my other subscriptions right next to yours. Do all my reading in one easy place, and never miss a post.

Posted by: Seth Rice at June 16, 2010 4:18 PM

So....

Reading Me == Reading My Works ,
Me == My Works

i.e. you, Bruce, are nothing more than your works? Naaaah....

Posted by: AC2 at June 17, 2010 12:28 AM

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