Pulse launches
April 11, 2006
One of the projects I’ve been working on recently, Pulse, has launched! It’s what online marketing firm Names@Work is calling the first networked book. On the same day that the book hit the shelves of stores, the book began becoming available via its blog.
Never have time to read books these days? The book has been broken up into small pieces for you to read twice each day via RSS or email. If you discover the blog later, you don’t have to feel overwhelmed catching up - you can receive a time-delay feed and start reading from the beginning, twice a day too.
There’s also a chance for you to comment or make corrections and influence later editions or follow-up books. The text is, like other blogs, highly linked out to related blogs and other sites.
Pulse is a ground-breaking new application of blogging and I enjoyed working on the site.
Pulse looks fantastic. I am a great fan of this concept as well. I hope other authors pursue this idea. There is an area of psychology called Bibliotherapy - essentially therapeutic reading/writing. Often Bibliotherapy is delivered in modules over time. The pulse type blog format would be perfect for this kind of therapeutic intervention.
— Gareth, April 11, 2006
From a marketing perspective, this is awesome. Personally, I need the tactile experience of a “dead tree” book, so after reading several of the entries - I plan on buying the book. It seems strange that lessons like this are lost on the music and movie industries. Excellent job on the Pulse site.
— Eric, April 23, 2006