I appreciate very much your extra credit reading lists, but usually there’s insufficient time between their posting and the live show for actually reading them. It would be great if you can add a few excerpts from these sources to the show page before each show.
John Boylan, in an email to Open Source, August 16, 2006.
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For a few months now we’ve been cranking out daily Extra Credit Reading Lists with our show posts. Now we want to hear your feedback. Are they helpful? What for? As a rule, we prioritize blog posts and international news sources over the more mainstream stuff that we expect you can find on your own, and we imagine that webby suggestions are more helpful to you than books. Right on? Way off? Should we be spending our time at more gainly pursuits? Let us know.
By the way, we just started a Google email group to talk about ways to make the site better. Come on down.
I vote for continuing to provide the reading lists. I just ordered my first laptop, in part because I would like to participate more fully in this discussion. Maybe I imagine that I’ll have more time to read than will be possible, but what I’ve been hoping is that I can spend more time on each issue. Actually, I’m hoping to use your show to jumpstart some new writing of my own. So, please keep the reading lists.
Your reading lists are great. Better yet, they set a good example to your blogstituency – to offer reading lists (or relevant portions thereof) instead of nuthin’ but our yen for pontificashun.
Keep them coming please. And don’t be shy about the amount of reading you offer us: we’re adults, not students – we can, after all, pick and choose the items from your lists that we’d like to read.
I for one dearly appreciate all the reading resources I’ve gained since you launched your show and blog 14 months ago. Not only from you, but from many of your contributing bloggers.
THANK YOU—both to ROS and to its blogstituent community.
I very much appreciate the reading lists. They are part of what makes ROS distinctive–a thinking community rather than solely a radio show. Even if one can’t get to them as homework before a show, they are a great resource afterwards to pursue ideas–and guests– who stand out during the broadcast. Several of the blogs on my daily-review list came to my attention via ROS.