Ok, the heading is misleading and would constitute baiting if I cared enough.
Found via Dianne Mueller and sure to become an internet meme. Explaining an accounting process need not be dry when you see these cartoons (click on the image). Sure to give the Plain English versions a run for their money.
From JICPA, the Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
On a related topic, the discussion is around Twitter replacing RSS as a news feed of choice for online media types. I dramatically cut my RSS reading time and use Twitter because the idea is germinated on Twitter before it becomes a post – So Dianne tweeted about this, and then did her post.
Apart from the fact that ou can pull RSS into Twitter, expecting users to congregate around a news reader to passively consume media is actually, despite RSS and other add-ons, a very Web 1.0 concept. We ought to know better.
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Interesting find, Derek. Wonder if any other English-speaking accounting bodies have plans to release something similar? Well done to JICPA for at least being a bit forward thinking on the communication front.
On the Twitter vs RSS matter, can’t say I agree since personally I find RSS a lot easier to track, filter and go through easily, whereas I find the volume of information on Twitter flows too fast to easily pick up on specific ones of interest. This article of yours for instance – found it via RSS rather than Twitter. But perhaps its just me
Fair point with RSS, but I had pimped out Google Reader and eventually stopped going there as it was a firehose. If I go to a great site, I’m hoping for a link to Twitter rather than the Orange safety cones of RSS
funny – I found this post in my google reader but then saw you on twitter and started following you there. It’s hard to say if one is better than the other – they’re just too different. I like Twitter because it’s not a big process to blurt out a thought and get feedback (I’m not a writer) – but I really like the content richness that can be put in a blog post. I can really appreciate the “firehose” comment though.
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