In a world drowning in email, and increasingly with email newsletters, one of the messages I actually look forward to receiving each day is:

•  Proximities: Today’s three stories you should know

It’s an email newsletter from a journalist named Barry Malone that comes out almost every day. His goal is to highlight three “non-Western news stories you should know”.

What I enjoy is that he very simply and succinctly provides a summary and then a link to read more. It’s three quick paragraphs that I can quickly scan and then decide if I want to read more.

Living in the USA, as I do, most of the news in our US media tends to be about, well… the USA! And maybe Europe on a good day. Every so often we might hear about Canada, too.

But the only times we really hear about countries and regions in other parts of the world are when there are natural disasters or maybe some violent conflict (but sometimes NOT).

To help broaden my view, I get Barry’s email and also the news letter from the Rest of World site, which I highly recommend.

Many thanks to Barry for all the work he’s done – and for consistently delivering such concise, succinct summaries. I would encourage you to subscribe!

This week I plan to put out my next issue of “A View From The Crow’s Nest” – have you subscribed?

Some of the topics I’ve covered or linked to in past issues:

• Google’s Font API, web typography
• How the FaceTime protocol really works
• HTML 5 and how you can prepare for it
• The connection between landlines and our identity
• Google Wave (before it waved goodbye)
• Digital photography, DSLRs and sites to help
• Google Analytics, SEO, etc.

I’ve got some more links lined up about typography, Facebook, web design, communication technology, hacker-centric culture… and much more!

If you’d like to join in the journey, just fill out the form. It’s free… and I promise not to spam you.

Recently someone asked me if I would be making AVFTCN available on the web so they could read it there versus email. Right now… no, I’m not. Maybe I will some day, but for right now it’s only an email conversation.

Thanks for all the great comments I received after the last issue from current subscribers… it’s great to know people are finding it a valuable resource!

If you enjoy my writing across my various blogs, my updates on Twitter, my weekly reports into the For Immediate Release (FIR) podcast or my other podcasts, have you considered joining my email newsletter?

I started “A View From The Crow’s Nest“ late last year partly as an experiment with email marketing providers… and also as another way to share information about new services or “things I find cool”. I only send it out a couple of times each month and provide pointers to content online that I think is important or interesting with regard to… communications, technology, social media, tools, the open internet, photography and… well… anything else I feel like sending along 😉

If you are interested in joining, please fill out the subscription form.  Please do note that you should receive an email confirmation message back very shortly that has a link you need to click to confirm your subscription. If you don’t receive the message shortly, please check your spam filters (a number of subscribers have missed this message and had to submit the form again).

Thanks for your interest!