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Sourcefeed

https://www.sourcefeed.app/why
Some writing wants to be a website. Some wants to be a newsletter. Some wants to be a feed. Sourcefeed is for the third kind. RSS-only. No website, no inbox, no algorithm. Subscribers read it where they choose, in whatever reader they already trust.

Feedsmith — Fast & Powerful JavaScript Feed Parser

https://feedsmith.dev/
Fast, all‑in‑one JavaScript feed parser and generator for RSS, Atom, RDF, and JSON Feed, with support for popular namespaces and OPML files. Feedsmith offers universal and format‑specific parsers that maintain the original feed structure in a clean, object-oriented format while intelligently normalizing legacy elements. Access all feed data without compromising simplicity.

Zoomer Tries RSS: In Praise of Yarr - tudor’s website

https://tudorr.ro/blog/2024-04-04-zoomer-tries-rss/
I’m a Gen Z-er: I was a toddler when RSS reached its 2.0 milestone, and when Apple popularised RSS for podcasts by adding support in iTunes. I was in middle school when Google Reader was shut down. When I started using the internet by myself, it was already dominated by social media, which is still the dominant source of information for many people around me, younger and older alike.
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Scripting News: My new linkblog feed

http://scripting.com/2025/07/01/114429.html?title=myNewLinkblogFeed
I only want really good feeds. It's time to stop being so careless about what we transmit to the world. If we want an open web we're all going to have to be good gardeners. It's like a food system where all the food is grown by family farmers and I'm running a restaurant, and only want the good stuff, and we want it to look good too! :-)#

Taste Is the New Intelligence - by stepfanie tyler

https://wildbarestepf.substack.com/p/taste-is-the-new-intelligence?ref=DenseDiscovery-345
We used to associate intelligence with accumulation. The smartest people were the ones who knew the most. But that model doesn’t hold anymore. AI knows more than anyone. Wikipedia is free. The internet has flattened information access so thoroughly that hoarding knowledge is no longer impressive. What matters now is what you do with it. How you filter it. How you recognize signal in the noise. Curation is the new IQ test.

What RSS Needs

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/08/25/feeds
Highlight:It’s just that feeds could be so much more with some love and directed care – something that could jump from a niche use case to a widespread ‘normal’ part of the Web for many. Web feeds could be so much more if we put some effort into them. This post explores some ideas of how to start.

A few thoughts about RSS news readers from someone who thinks about them way more than you probably do - Russell Beattie

http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/a-few-thoughts-about-rss-news-readers-from-someone-who-thinks-about-them-way-more-than-you-probably-do
It might appear like gloom and doom (actually, if it doesn't, you're not looking), but really it's a massive opportunity. Again, anyone who uses a news reader can't imagine having to live without one, yet I see the feed ecosystem slowly deteriorating with no replacement in sight. That's the opportunity, in my mind. It's not about simply mimicking Google Reader (which I would never do anyways, as I've never liked it), but about bootstrapping off the system we have today, in order to create a new type of news reader for tomorrow. The future of news readers, so to speak. ;-)

Why feed reading is an open web problem, and what browsers could do about it – Luis Villa

http://tieguy.org/blog/2013/04/21/why-feed-reading-is-an-open-web-problem-and-what-browsers-could-do-about-it/
I’ve long privately thought that Firefox should treat feed reading as a first-class citizen of the open web, and integrate feed subscribing and reading more deeply into the browser (rather than the lame, useless live bookmarks.) The impending demise of Reader has finally forced me to spit out my thoughts on the issue. They’re less polished than I like when I blog these days, but here you go – may they inspire someone to resuscitate this important part of the open web.

Why feed reading is an open web problem, and what browsers could do about it – Luis Villa

http://tieguy.org/blog/2013/04/21/why-feed-reading-is-an-open-web-problem-and-what-browsers-could-do-about-it
I’ve long privately thought that Firefox should treat feed reading as a first-class citizen of the open web, and integrate feed subscribing and reading more deeply into the browser (rather than the lame, useless live bookmarks.) The impending demise of Reader has finally forced me to spit out my thoughts on the issue. They’re less polished than I like when I blog these days, but here you go – may they inspire someone to resuscitate this important part of the open web.

The Pushbutton Web: Realtime Becomes Real - Anil Dash

http://dashes.com/anil/2009/07/the-pushbutton-web-realtime-becomes-real.html
Pushbutton is a name for what I believe will be an upgrade for the web, where any site or application can deliver realtime messages to a web-scale audience, using free and open technologies at low cost and without relying on any single company like Twitter or Facebook. The pieces of this platform have just come together to enable a whole set of new features and applications that would have been nearly impossible for an average web developer to build in the past.

Nick Bradbury: The Friction in Frictionless Sharing

http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2012/01/the-friction-in-frictionless-sharing.html
Well, no, not really. Because in the past the user only had to decide whether to share something they just read, but now they have to think about every single article before they even read it. If I read this article, then everyone will know I read it, and do I really want people to know I read it?

The purported death of RSS

http://www.loopinsight.com/2011/11/10/the-purported-death-of-rss
Just as /Library is now hidden from an OS X Lion user, and just as the iOS platform is locked down and sandboxed, RSS is simply dropping off into the background. Content is being syndicated and aggregated just as before. Perhaps even more so than in the past. Virtually everyone with a Facebook, Google+, or Twitter account follows a news-providing entity. Those entities share content feeds. Those content feeds are generally derived from the XML and Atom feeds that comprise the RSS.

3 Google Reader Changes Need Repair Now - Internet - Google - Informationweek

http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/231902111
This is essential. There were several feeds that I subscribed to from individuals that were an absolutely vital part of my informational flow. Now, I no longer have access to those feeds. Instead, Google hopes that I'll watch those same people in Google+ to see what they share publicly. Only these were private feeds meant pretty much only for me. In the 36 hours or so that I've been using the new Reader, I've been unable to access these feeds or find alternatives that are as easy to use.

GeekMom » Blog Archive » Why Curated Content Matters: A Lament for Reader Share

http://www.geekmom.com/2011/11/why-curated-content-matters-a-lament-for-reader-share
And that is exactly what’s bugging me about the death of Reader Share. It was an info pantry, not a colander—a place well stocked with nourishing brain food. I followed a number of people who had demonstrated, day after day, a sharp eye for items worth my time. Every time I clicked that “people you follow” link to see what they’d shared, I could count on learning something.

Unoccupy Google Reader | Jack Shafer

http://blogs.reuters.com/jackshafer/2011/11/03/unoccupy-google-reader
We users had been warned for weeks that a redesign of the popular (and free) RSS reader was in the making, so the appearance of a new version didn’t come as a shock. The only shock was how terrible the new version is. It subverts users’ needs in favor of Google’s. The company wants to fight Facebook with a uniform interface for its free suite of services—which also includes Gmail, Calendar, and Docs—that will encourage sharing of content on its newish social-networking product, Google+. But in making the whole Google product line visually consistent, the company has crippled one of its best offerings.

Google Reader Backlash: A Fuss Over Nothing? - Rebecca J. Rosen - Technology - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/11/google-reader-backlash-a-fuss-over-nothing/247707
But for people who used Google Reader's sharing features, the upgrade is a big loss, for all intents and purposes ruining that aspect of Reader. The old sharing methods have been totally supplanted with Google+ tools, which, quality aside, are too different to satisfy the same needs. I'm going to dive into the nitty-gritty here, so consider yourself warned.

Google Doesn't Seem to Want to Fix Reader - Rebecca J. Rosen - Technology - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/11/google-doesnt-want-to-fix-reader/247858
Even before Google unveiled it's changes to Reader, it did not care what users thought. In the first blog post announcing the changes, Google said, "We recognize, however, that some of you may feel like the product is no longer for you." As a nice gesture, Google gave people tools for transferring their feeds and social data to other RSS aggregators, but the point was clear: You don't have to like what we're about to do.

Dreams, discernment, and Google Reader | massless

http://massless.org/?p=174
The shareable social object of subscribe-able items makes Reader’s network unique and the answer to why change is painful for many of its users is because no obvious alternative network exists with exactly that object. The social object of Google+ is…nearly anything and its diffuse model is harder to evaluate or appreciate. The value of a social network seems to map proportionally to the perceived value of its main object. (Examples: sharing best-of-web links on Metafilter or sharing hi-res photos on Flickr or sharing video art on Vimeo or sharing statuses on Twitter/Facebook or sharing questions on Quora.) If you want a community with stronger ties, provide more definition to your social object.

How Google Reader's Overhaul Betrayed and Irked Its Most Passionate Users

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_google_readers_overhaul_betrayed_and_irked_its.php
Yesterday, I got an email from a good friend with a subject line that needed no further explanation: "Google Reader." It was sent to a group of mutual friends, bemoaning the recent changes to Reader's interface, thereby kicking off a lengthy dis...

Bug List: lorchard-history

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfieldto=Now&columnlist=opendate,changeddate,bug_severity,priority,assigned_to,bug_status,resolution,product,component,op_sys,target_milestone,short_desc&ctype=atom&email1=lorchard&emailassigned_to1=1&emailassigned_to2=1&emaillongdesc1=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailtype1=substring&field-1-0-0=bug_status&field-1-1-0=resolution&field-1-2-0=assigned_to&field-1-2-1=commenter&query_format=advanced&resolution=FIXED&resolution=---&title=Bug+List:+lorchard-history&type-1-0-0=anyexact&type-1-1-0=anyexact&type-1-2-0=substring&type-1-2-1=substring&value-1-0-0=RESOLVED,VERIFIED,CLOSED&value-1-1-0=FIXED,---&value-1-2-0=lorchard&value-1-2-1=lorchard
More detailed list of Mozilla bugs in which I've participated. Considering inclusion in FriendFeed, but it might be annoying.

Monkeying with the Lizard Feeder

http://surfmind.com/muzings?cpage=1&p=237#comment-312760
"The call to action is to build on the Lizard Feeder concept with anything from ideas to pixels to code. I hacked up a grease monkey script that weights the data-source checkbox & label on the left according to the volume of flow. This provides a bit of focus + context for the recent stream. The implementation is a minimal, bit-of-an-evening starter kit (MPL) for more interesting creations."

joshua's blog: beyond rest

http://joshua.schachter.org/2008/07/beyond-rest.html
"In some ways this is slightly more elegant than the XMPP solution as neither side has to maintain a dedicated long-running process. ... There are a number of people on inexpensive service providers who have at best web scripting hosting and not much else