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Fight Firewalls With Kindle

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

My humorist pal Rose Valenta recently created a Kindle version of her blog and inspired me to do the same. Why? Because many employers are getting strict about web access, blocking employees from reading their favorite blogs and sites — even while they’re on a break or at lunch.

But your boss can’t control what you read on your Kindle. And Amazon makes it easy for bloggers to create Kindle blog editions, allowing fans to bypass their bosses and keep up with their reading.

That brings me to my latest limerick:

Fight Firewalls With Kindle
By Madeleine Begun Kane

You’re at work, but on break — want to read.
But your boss did a dastardly deed:
Your fav’rites are blocked.
Your net access is locked.
But he can’t stop a Kindle blog feed.

My News: I’ve created Kindle versions of both my blogs. So if you’d like to read this general humor blog on your Kindle reader you can subscribe right here. And if you’d like to read my other political satire blog on your Kindle device, you can subscribe right here.

Attention Fellow Bloggers: If you’d like to publish your own blog on Amazon Kindle, Amazon makes it pretty easy and has a helpful Kindle Blog FAQ here. You can also find some useful info over at Mashable and some Kindle badges and icons here.

Warning: Reading blogs on Kindle isn’t free, except for the 14-day free trial for each blog. Monthly Kindle blog subscription fees are controlled by Amazon and priced at either $0.99 per month or $1.99 per month. Moreover, only 30% of the revenue goes to the blogger.

And Now For The Sales Pitch: Each of my two blogs is priced at $0.99 per month.

So if you’re a Kindle owner, I hope you’ll give the Kindle version of this humor blog and/or the Kindle version of my political satire blog a try.

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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Kindle Controversy

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

My Advice To Spammers (Limerick)

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Luddite Limerick

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Battle of the Search Engines

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Pedestrian Plea

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

A Robot Violinist That Plays Better Than Your Kid?

Friday, March 13th, 2009

My Twitter Motto (Haiku)

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

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Monday, February 16th, 2009

Multi-Task Madness

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

The Couple That Reads Together…

Monday, October 20th, 2008

Twitter Tweet Verse (Limerick & Haiku Prompt)

Friday, October 10th, 2008

The Outgoing Message I’d Love To (But Probably Shouldn’t) Leave On My Answering Machine (Limerick)

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Email Hell (Limerick & Haiku Prompt)

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Yet Another Tax Humor Piece: Interactive Taxes

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Web Withdrawal Woes

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Spam Haiku

Saturday, September 15th, 2007

Ode To The Google PageRank Obsession

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007