Continuing our infrastructure updates: What’s changing in the coming months : r/modnews
https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1wubgvt/continuing_our_infrastructure_updates_whats/
Because RSS is now a common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, we'll stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13, 2026 while preserving moderation workflows that depend on it through supported alternatives.
Michael Tsai - Blog - Reddit to Remove RSS
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/10/06/reddit-to-remove-rss/
Well, this sucks ass.
cruftbox/wireburst: RSS/Atom to Discord bot — each feed gets its own channel, organized by category
https://github.com/cruftbox/wireburst
RSS/Atom to Discord bot — each feed gets its own channel, organized by category
Wireburst: RSS feeds in Discord, because email is the devil – Cruftbox: My Box of Cruft
https://cruftbox.com/2026/06/30/wireburst-rss-feeds-in-discord-because-email-is-the-devil/
The idea is simple. You point Wireburst at your RSS feeds, tell it what category they belong to, and it creates a Discord channel for each feed nested under a category group. New items show up individually. No algorithm. Just a channel you can glance at when you feel like it and ignore when you don’t.
Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For | Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/hate-algorithm-rss-one-tools-youve-been-looking
RSS is one of the best examples we have of the open web, where we can design and customize how we experience the internet, not the other way around. RSS has come in and out of fashion, been declared dead, and has come back, every time. Open systems are the best way forward to a free, equitable internet, and the resilience and continued reinvention of RSS has shown just how creative the web community can be with open protocols.
RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google – Terence Eden’s Blog
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/rss-feeds-send-me-more-traffic-than-google/
about 25% of my traffic comes from people who have chosen to subscribe.
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.
We need RSS for sharing abundant vibe-coded apps (Interconnected)
https://interconnected.org/home/2026/04/29/syndicating-vibes
I would love an RSS web feed for all those various tools and apps pages, each item with an “Install” button. (But install to where?)
The lesson here is that when vibe-coding accelerates app development, apps become more personal, more situated, and more frequent. Shipping a tool or a micro-app is less like launching a website and more like posting on a blog.
RSS Gizmos - Tools for Creating, Finding, and Using RSS Feeds
https://rssgizmos.com/
RSS feeds give you the power to set up and control your own information flow — you get to make your own algorithm for the things you want to see from the sources you want to follow. Choose a tool below to get started.
Pluralistic: The web is bearable with RSS (07 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/07/reader-mode/
It's almost impossible to overstate how superior RSS is to the median web page. Imagine if the newsletters you followed were rendered with black, clear type on a plain white background (rather than the sadistically infinitesimal, greyed-out type that designers favor thanks to the unkillable urban legend that black type on a white screen causes eye-strain). Imagine reading the web without popups, without ads, without nag screens. Imagine reading the web without interruptors or "keep reading" links.
wbernest/mattermost-plugin-rssfeed: Mattermost RSSFeed plugin. Allows users to subscribe to an rss feed and allow for updates to the feed to be posted in a channel.
https://github.com/wbernest/mattermost-plugin-rssfeed
Mattermost RSSFeed plugin. Allows users to subscribe to an rss feed and allow for updates to the feed to be posted in a channel.
The Great Markdown Rebranding Of 2026
https://tedium.co/2026/02/17/markdown-growing-influence-cloudflare-ai/
So, here’s something that I didn’t expect to be saying in 2026: There seems to be a nonzero chance that Markdown might become the new RSS.
Current | Terry Godier
https://www.terrygodier.com/current
Velocity is what makes the river work. Every source in Current has a half-life that you set: how long its articles stay visible before fading out.
Phantom Obligation | Terry Godier
https://www.terrygodier.com/phantom-obligation
So let me start with a question that's been nagging at me: why do RSS readers look like email clients?
Why I Stopped Following the News | Mert Bulan
https://mertbulan.com/2026/01/28/why-i-stopped-following-the-news/
If I have to pick my favourite German word, I would probably pick “neugierig” because it describes me very well. It means curious, but that is not the literal meaning. Like many German words, it comes from two parts: neu and gierig. Neu means new, and gierig means greedy. So the literal idea behind neugierig is being greedy for new things. That fits me well.
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.
as days pass by — Use RSS to read newsletters
https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2025/02/08/use-rss-to-read-newsletters/
There is a solution to this and the solution is called RSS. Andy Bell explains RSS and this is exactly how I read newsletters. If I want to read someone's newsletter and it's on Substack, or ghost.io, or buttondown.email, what I actually do is subscribe to their newsletter but what I'm actually subscribing to is their RSS feed. This sections off newsletter stuff into a completely separate app that I can catch up on when I've got the time, it means that the newsletter owner (or the site they're using) can't decide to "upsell" me on other stuff they do that I'm not interested in, and it's a better, nicer reading experience than my mail app.
How to Make a Damn Website
https://lmnt.me/blog/how-to-make-a-damn-website.html
A lot of people want to make a website but don’t know where to start or they get stuck. That’s in part because our perception of what websites should be has changed so dramatically over the last 20 years.
Why RSS matters
https://werd.io/why-rss-matters/
RSS has always worked quietly in the background. In a moment when the web is being reshaped by enclosure, consolidation, and algorithmic mediation, its reliability is exactly what we need. It offers a simple, durable way for publishers to keep control of their distribution and for readers to keep control of their attention, without permission, platform lock-in, or hidden agendas. If we treat RSS not as a relic of an earlier web but as the strategic infrastructure it already is, it can continue to anchor a more open, more resilient, and more humane internet for decades to come.
I built a tiny RSS generator for my Advent of Code solutions : Juha-Matti Santala
https://hamatti.org/posts/i-built-a-tiny-rss-generator-for-my-advent-of-code-solutions/
This week, I started solving Advent of Code problems and this time I’m publishing my explanations as part of my Digital Garden and that doesn’t support separated RSS feeds for a subset of notes.
Two IndieWeb principles that I love are Make what you need and Use what you make. In that spirit, I built a tiny tool today afterwork to enable people to follow my Advent of Code explanations via RSS.
lmorchard/feed-to-mastodon: A command-line tool that fetches RSS/Atom feeds and posts new entries to Mastodon with customizable templates.
https://github.com/lmorchard/feed-to-mastodon
Contribute to lmorchard/feed-to-mastodon development by creating an account on GitHub.
cdzombak/feedfilter: RSS feed filtering tool
https://github.com/cdzombak/feedfilter/tree/main
RSS feed filtering tool
inessential: Why NetNewsWire Is Not a Web App
https://inessential.com/2025/10/04/why-netnewswire-is-not-web-app.html
If it were a web app instead, I could drop the developer membership, but I’d have to pay way more money for web and database hosting. Probably need a CDN too, and who knows what else. (I don’t have recent web app experience, so I don’t even know what my requirements would be, but I’m sure they’d cost substantially more than a couple hundred bucks a year.)
I could charge for NetNewsWire, but that would go against my political goal of making sure there’s a good and free RSS reader available to everyone.
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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2000: Bloggers Make Friends, but RSS Format Wars Kick Off | Cybercultural
https://cybercultural.com/p/blogs-rss-2000/
In 2000, the blogroll becomes a trend as bloggers increasingly link to each other. Meanwhile, RSS bifurcates into two opposing formats: Dave Winer's RSS 0.92 and the RDF-based RSS 1.0.
SDF Chatter - Subscribed
https://lemmy.sdf.org/feeds/front/eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiIzNTUiLCJpc3MiOiJsZW1teS5zZGYub3JnIiwiaWF0IjoxNzU1NzEzMjg5fQ.vpe4Kl4ZapEgCZCrIBYnAJYdrwixP6-3T29U70O4hGA.xml?sort=Active
SDF Chatter - All
https://lemmy.sdf.org/feeds/all.xml?sort=Active
ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/feeds/propublica/main
rssrssrssrss - Combine Multiple RSS Feeds into One
https://www.rssrssrssrss.com/
Curate your own newspaper with RSS
https://www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-rss/
Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read
Using AgentQL and Pipedream to Fix Missing RSS Feeds
https://www.raymondcamden.com/2025/07/23/using-agentql-and-pipedream-to-fix-missing-rss-feeds
Last week I blogged about how I used AgentQL to scrape a web page, this blog to be precise, into pure data. If you don't remember, AgentQL lets you pass a simple query string that is run against a web page and parsed into data. So for example, I was able to use this query on my home page to get a list of entries in pure data:
{
blogposts[] {
url
title
date
}
}
The REST API was incredibly easy, and I demonstrated in BoxLang how I could use AgentQL to turn my blog's home page into a much simpler, smaller, HTML version. This of course begs the question, how else could we transform it? What about creating a RSS feed for a blog that doesn't have one!
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! :-)#
macieklamberski/feedsmith: Robust and fast parser and generator for RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, and RDF feeds, with support for Podcast, iTunes, Dublin Core, and OPML files.
https://github.com/macieklamberski/feedsmith
Robust and fast parser and generator for RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, and RDF feeds, with support for Podcast, iTunes, Dublin Core, and OPML files.
aittalam/byota: Build Your Own Timeline Algorithm
https://github.com/aittalam/byota
Build Your Own Timeline Algorithm
FOSDEM 2025 - Build your own timeline algorithm
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5601-build-your-own-timeline-algorithm/
Timeline algorithms should be useful for people, not for companies. Their quality should not be evaluated in terms of how much more time people spend on a platform, but rather in terms of how well they serve their users’ purposes
Bluesky has launched RSS feeds - Open RSS
https://openrss.org/blog/bluesky-has-launched-rss-feeds
Hooray to Bluesky for releasing its new RSS feeds! Now anyone can now obtain an RSS feed for any Bluesky user. We've taken them for a test drive, and here's what you should know.
Lens - Check your meta tags, icons, and rss feeds
https://lens.rknight.me/
Check your meta tags, icons, and rss feeds
Automatically Posting to Bluesky on New RSS Items
https://www.raymondcamden.com/2024/11/05/automatically-posting-to-bluesky-on-new-rss-items
For this solution, I'm using Pipedream. I've blogged for years now and love it. Their free tier will support what I'm showing below so you should feel free to give it a try. There are many alternatives out there, but Pipedream has some great features that I think make it stand out. You'll see that especially in the first step below. But, keep in mind if you've already got a platform you would want to use, as long as you can handle the execution on new RSS items, you could probably just skip to the last step and copy and paste from my code.
Scripting News: Friday, November 29, 2024
http://scripting.com/2024/11/29.html#a133619
I want to add an important feature to podcasting that can only work with RSS, it can’t work with Spotify, Google, Audible etc. The idea is subscribing to subscription lists, which the influencers are likely to really love because they can create networks of podcasts. And when they want to edit the list, if this is done right, the users will automatically be updated.
RSSPreview – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rsspreview/
Preview RSS feeds in-browser
Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users - Open RSS
https://openrss.org/blog/using-cloudflare-on-your-website-could-be-blocking-rss-users?utm_medium=FuckOff&utm_source=FuckOff
Many users prefer to use an RSS feed reader to stay up to date with the content on the websites they visit. But if you've enabled Cloudflare on your website, you're likely blocking these RSS users from accessing your website content without realizing it.
Pluralistic: You should be using an RSS reader (16 Oct 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/
RSS basically works like social media should work. Using RSS is a chance to visit a utopian future in which the platforms have no power, and all power is vested in publishers, who get to decide what to publish, and in readers, who have total control over what they read and how, without leaking any personal information through the simple act of reading.
Who invented the word ‘podcast’?
https://www.theverge.com/c/24238422/podcast-etymology-term-history-tech-vergecast
Before a podcast was a “podcast,” it was… well, it wasn’t really much of anything. A few of the early believers called them “audio blogs,” and the journalist often credited with coining the term “podcast” also offered “GuerillaMedia” as an alternative in the very same article. (And actually, there’s plenty of debate over exactly who coined the term and when. The history of the podcast is more contentious than you’d think.)
The blogosphere is in full bloom. The rest of the internet has wilted | John Naughton | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/05/the-blogosphere-is-in-full-bloom-the-rest-of-the-internet-has-wilted-dave-winer
As blogging pioneer Dave Winer’s site turns 30, it’s a reminder that good writing and thinking has flourished beyond the reach of social media
~sircmpwn/openring - A webring for static site generators - sourcehut git
https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/openring
This is a tool for generating a webring from RSS feeds, so you can link to other blogs you like on your own blog. It's designed to be fairly simple and integrate with any static site generator.
How Apple Shaped Podcasting | On the Media | WNYC Studios
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/how-apple-shaped-podcasting
Highlight:A recent update to the Apple podcast app also included a tweak to how podcast downloads work. As a podcast user you’re free to shrug and move on. But for podcast creators this could be a big deal. According to data from Podtrac, overall downloads across the industry were down 15 percent as of February. This American Life lost 20 percent of their downloads. Some shows at NPR saw a 30 percent dip. In this week's midweek podcast, OTM producer Molly Rosen looks at how Apple has shaped the podcast industry.
A recent update to the Apple podcast app also included a tweak to how podcast downloads work. As a podcast user you’re free to shrug and move on. But for podcast creators this could b...
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.
Creating an RSS Reader in Godot Engine (part 1) – Andrew Wooldridge – Medium
https://medium.com/@triptych/creating-an-rss-reader-in-godot-engine-part-1-3abe0068b6b1
This article will discuss my own efforts to create a simple application using Godot Engine — specifically an RSS reader. It’s probably one of the more common simple applications one might create for a given framework — which tests out things like networking, parsing, rendering, and saving preferences.
In the Shadow of the CMS | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/content-management-system-essay-wordpress-drupal-internet-feature/
What we need is a digital-media version of organic food or a local farmers’ market: ethically sourced, sustainably funded, and integrity-certified, all the way from CMS up.
In the Shadow of the CMS | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/content-management-system-essay-wordpress-drupal-internet-feature
What we need is a digital-media version of organic food or a local farmers’ market: ethically sourced, sustainably funded, and integrity-certified, all the way from CMS up.
Carl Chenet / feed2toot · GitLab
https://gitlab.com/chaica/feed2toot
Feed2toot automatically parses rss feeds, identifies new posts and posts them on the Mastodon social network.
Yahoo Pipes Blog - Pipes End-of-life Announcement
http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement
You can download your Pipe definition by specifying your Pipe-ID (_id) and the output format (_out=json) to the following end-point: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info
inessential.com: Brian’s Stupid Feed Tricks
http://inessential.com/2013/03/18/brians_stupid_feed_tricks
Brian is intimately acquainted with the different ways feeds can be screwed up. So he posted Stupid Feed Tricks on Google Docs.
Huge list of 3000 bundled feeds from Google Reader extracted by russb
https://gist.github.com/russellbeattie/5545671
Added all 449 "Bundles" that Google Reader provides, plus their 27 "featured bundles" from famous people, and then added some top feeds that were the result of searches for a few keywords.
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. ;-)
Thread: Another pitch for River of News
http://threads2.scripting.com/2013/april/anotherPitchForRiverOfNews
A feed scanner that accepts OPML subscription lists and generates river.js files.
HowTo: What is river.js?
http://riverjs.org/
It's called river.js because it represents a river of news in JSON.
HowTo: What is river.js?
http://riverjs.org
It's called river.js because it represents a river of news in JSON.
Magazines have finally killed blogs -- but in a way you never expected
http://io9.com/magazines-have-finally-killed-blogs-but-in-a-way-you-461996928
Interesting historical perspective on RSS & feed readers & usenet, and a kind of depressing prediction that we're going back to the days of magazine silos.
Google Reader shutting down July 1 – Marco.org
http://www.marco.org/2013/03/13/google-reader-sunset
Now, we’ll be forced to fill the hole that Reader will leave behind, and there’s no immediately obvious alternative. We’re finally likely to see substantial innovation and competition in RSS desktop apps and sync platforms for the first time in almost a decade.
SE Podcast #27 – Dave Winer - Blog – Stack Exchange
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/11/se-podcast-27-dave-winer
Right now, Dave’s working on a “magnificent symphony of software” – it’s the communication system he wants to use. It involves a minimal blogging tool with only RSS output (plus a dongle that will push the RSS to twitter, etc), a “River of News” aggregator, and an overarching tool for creating content that can be picked apart and included on other platforms.
Twitter, the conversation-enabler? Actually, most news orgs use the service as a glorified RSS feed » Nieman Journalism Lab
http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/11/twitter-the-conversation-enabler-actually-most-news-orgs-use-the-service-as-a-glorified-rss-feed
A new Pew study finds news outlets using Twitter almost exclusively for one-way distribution — of their own content.
And this is why I only follow live human beings on Twitter, for the most part. That, and funny bots.
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.
This Mac OS-Themed Userstyle Transforms Google Reader into a Clean, Well-Spaced Reader
http://lifehacker.com/5857807/this-mac-os+themed-userstyle-transforms-google-reader-into-a-clean-well+spaced-reader
Martin Nisenholtz, RSS, and the power of standards » Nieman Journalism Lab
http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/11/martin-nisenholtz-rss-and-the-power-of-standards
As with any new technology developing in the open, RSS was constantly evolving, with competing flavors, and it was proving difficult to settle on one single standard. Until, that is, Dave approached Martin Nisenholtz about getting The New York Times content pulled into 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...
World Outline: River2 bug importing OPML
http://worknotes.scripting.com/november2011/11211ByDw/river2BugImportingOpml
This is why we need a number of serious users who use the product in different ways to monitor problems after big changes. permalink
Tiny Tiny RSS - UpdatingFeeds - Tiny Tiny RSS
http://tt-rss.org/redmine/wiki/tt-rss/UpdatingFeeds
This page explains various methods to update feeds with tt-rss and caveats involved. You have to setup one of this methods before you can start using tt-rss properly, otherwise your feeds won't be updated.
Nick Bradbury: Anti-social FeedDemon (Killing Features, Part II)
http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2011/11/anti-social-feeddemon-killing-features-part-ii.html
Last night the changes to Google Reader went live, and as promised, they've removed the sharing features. This means that the sharing features in FeedDemon which rely on Google Reader will eventually stop working, so I'm forced to remove them.
Occupy Google Reader Takes to the Streets - Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/10/28/occupy-google-reader-takes-to-the-streets
Okay, so it’s not exactly Occupy Wall Street, and the cause isn’t quite so dire as the recklessness of investment bankers gone wild or the government bailouts, but Google Reader is being cut off at the knees, and a number of its die-hard fans (including a few I know from Google Reader) have taken to the street to protest.
Farewell Google Reader - We'll Miss You - Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/10/26/farewell-google-reader-well-miss-you
Word on the street is Google Reader’s social functions, its funky community of shares and comments, and the archives of these interactions, will all be flushed down the memory hole tomorrow.
The Sharebro Lexicon - Reader Party -- An Alternate Universe
http://googlereaderlexicon.wikispaces.com/Reader+Party+--+An+Alternate+Universe
One of the fascinating things about Google Reader is how each group of sharebros/Reader Partiers/Gooderioon came up with their own culture within the system, in parallel of and isolation from one another, but fundamentally similar in intent and function.
Occupy Google Reader: Changes to the RSS feed irk the ‘sharebros’ - Arts Post - The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/arts-post/post/occupy-google-reader-changes-to-the-rss-feed-irk-the-sharebros/2011/10/27/gIQA7GbBMM_blog.html
When Google announced last week that Google Reader, an RSS aggregator with social-networking capability, would be rolling its social features into Google+, its disappointed readers felt helpless and disenfranchised against a powerful force.
Occupy Google Reader: A report from the protest's front lines - @TBD Arts | TBD.com
http://www.tbd.com/blogs/tbd-arts/2011/10/occupy-google-reader-a-report-from-the-protest-s-front-lines--13343.html
The skies are threatening as Ryan Ellis briskly walks up I Street NW to join a small group of people who had spent the last half-hour making signs in front of Google's D.C. headquarters. "This is the most loserish protest ever!" he laughs, taking up a sign that read "GOOGLE: DON'T MARK ALL AS READ."
Occupy Google Reader: My God, Google, Why Have You Forsaken Us? | WordStream
http://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2011/10/28/rip-google-reader
In short: This sucks. Google is trying to force its very loyal Reader user base into using Google+ instead. And I don’t wanna! Google Reader already works for me; it’s not broken. And I’m not the only one who’s pissed. In the Atlantic, Adam Clark Estes notes that “the world is surprisingly angry about the end of Google Reader.” Of course, it’s not the whole world that cares, but primarly the “Sharebros”
Reader redesign: Terrible decision, or worst decision? - *
http://brianshih.com/78073742
Google released the previously announced set of changes around G+ integration and UI updates today, and boy is it a disaster. Since the general changes were pre-announced last week, most of us were prepared for the letdown, but actually seeing how it works end to end has made several flaws abundantly clear. Let's start with the obvious.
Felicia Day » Blog Archive » RSS Rant
http://feliciaday.com/blog/rss-rant
User-led RSS advocacy
http://scripting.com/stories/2011/10/27/anOrganizedRssAdvocacy.html
The RSS community wakes up
http://scripting.com/stories/2011/10/26/rssCommunityWakesUp.html
Why “Just Store the App Data on Dropbox” won’t work for RSS readers
http://inessential.com/2011/10/25/why_just_store_the_app_data_on_dropbo
Google Reader and Mac/iOS RSS readers that sync
http://inessential.com/2011/10/24/google_reader_and_mac_ios_rss_readers_th
Don't change my Google Reader backlash
http://www.metafilter.com/108709/Dont-change-my-Google-Reader-backlash
Mourning the death of Google Reader's social features
http://kirbybits.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/wherein-i-try-to-explain-why-google-reader-is-the-best-social-network-created-so-far
River2 1.0
http://scripting.com/stories/2011/10/14/river2.html
Boots on the ground!
http://scripting.com/stories/2011/10/09/bootsOnTheGround.html
InstallWizard/SynologyNAS/FlexGet – FlexGet
http://flexget.com/wiki/InstallWizard/SynologyNAS/FlexGet
How To: Transmission-CLI and RSS | bradford's blawg
http://theblawblog.com/use-transmission-cli-to-download-from-rss
I really like Transmission-CLI for torrents, however it is lacking many features I used with uTorrent. One of them is downloading torrents automatically from an RSS feed. My reason for this is that I love Top Gear. But I don’t have BBC America (or a TV) so my only alternative is downloading it. But I don’t want to have to manually find the latest episode and then wait for it to download. This is a short how-to to get a simple RSS system set up using transmission-cli.
automatic | coding.curious
http://codingcurious.com/automatic
Automatic allows you to set up subscriptions for virtually any content linked in RSS feeds: podcasts, videocasts, torrentcasts... Rule of thumb: if it ends in '-cast', you can get it with Automatic.
DirCaster :: "Instant RSS!" :: RSS Broadcasting from a Directory: Podcasting, VODcasting, and more!
http://www.dircaster.org/index.html
DirCaster is a PHP script that allows one to very easily start Podcasting MP3 files from their web host. This allows original content creators to easily provide a feed for the Juice Podcast Receiver, jPodder, and other "podcatching" software. The feed is also fully iTunes compliant!
Custom Feeds - Palm Developer Center
http://developer.palm.com/index.php?id=1844&option=com_content&view=article
"Palm provides a public listing of all third-party applications and related metadata. This includes apps distributed via Web Distribution, the Palm App Catalog, and Beta Applications. These feeds are intended to facilitate the emergence of community directories of Palm webOS applications, such as the ones available at PreCentral and FreshMeat.
This article outlines the feeds and provides details on how to effectively consume them. "
jwz - How to use Facebook with a feed reader
http://jwz.livejournal.com/1144527.html
"I almost never actually visit the Facebook web site: I follow it through a feed reader (in my case, NetNewsWire) along with all of my other feeds. "
rsstodolist: an RSS based todo-list
http://rsstodolist.appspot.com
"A JetPack for rsstodolist is available to add current URL by a single click.
To use it, first, install JetPack, then, come back on that page and click on the upper-right "install" button.
You should then have a new item in your status bar (at bottom) allowing you to type your feed name and use the "add url" button to add the current url to your feed."
Mac OS X Manual Page For pubsub(1)
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/pubsub.1.html
"Utility for managing RSS/Atom subscriptions via the PubSub framework"
Searching across websites with OpenSearch | StressFree
http://www.stress-free.co.nz/searching_across_websites_with_opensearch
"Providing search services that span a number of disparate websites is a challenging problem that in the past has been left to the big-boys such as Google. However Amazon's OpenSearch RSS format is changing this reality and providing a means for effective multiple website search to be deployed at low cost by small development teams. "
Where's your data? (Scripting News)
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/02/01/wheresYourData.html
"Pay attention to what Craig says, and don't store anything on anyone else's server unless you know how you're going to get it off when you need to. Even better, don't store the original on someone else's server, keep that in your space and share a pointer to the data."
lmorchard's friends' twitter favorites
http://decafbad.com/2007/04/FeedMagick2?format=atom&pipeline=readinglist&run=Run+Pipeline&url=http://decafbad.com/2009/01/twitter-friend-faves-opml/?screenname=lmorchard
Combining my Twitter friends' favorites feeds with my FeedMagick2 OPML reading list blender gives me one merged feed of all favorites.
Google Reader Subscribers Count for Greasemonkey
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/21909
"This script checks if the html contains alternate links to a feed on every page you visit. When an unknown feed found, it sends a request to google reader using your account for the number of subscribers. And it caches the number for subsequent visits. The cache is cleared every 24 hours."
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - REST API Design: Invent Media Types, Not Protocols and Understand the Importance of Hyperlinks
http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2008/10/24/RESTAPIDesignInventMediaTypesNotProtocolsAndUnderstandTheImportanceOfHyperlinks.aspx
Full text in RSS? (Scripting News)
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/10/24/fullTextInRss.html
Vienna
http://www.vienna-rss.org/vienna2.php
"Vienna is a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OS X operating system. It provides features comparable to commercial newsreaders, but both it and the source code are freely available for download."
Ambient News at Toolness
http://www.toolness.com/wp?p=158
"a Firefox Extension called “Ambient News”, and its goal is to provide the user with zero-cost news about the sites that they visit frequently. The extension requires no configuration; you just install it and see if it helps you out."
Ciaran’s Random Writings » Blog Archive » feed2omb - A feed to microblog posting tool
http://blog.ciarang.com/posts/feed2omb
Gregarius - Devlog - Gregarius 0.6.0
http://devlog.gregarius.net/2008/07/30/gregarius-060
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
snellspace.com » Blog Archive » Atom Testing
http://www.snellspace.com/wp?p=254
"iTunes 6.0 supports Atom 1.0 based Podcasts! Without using any of their iTunes extensions! Excellent! "
Study: .gov web sites should focus on RSS, XML—not redesigns
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080603-study-gov-websites-should-focus-on-rss-xmlnot-redesigns.html
"David Robinson, Harlan Yu, William Zeller, and Ed Felten, all of Princeton's Information Technology Policy Center, suggest that government officials abandon the dream of developing usable web sites, and instead focus on providing raw public data such as
Snackr: an RSS ticker for Windows/Mac/Linux built using Adobe AIR and Flex.
http://www.snackr.net
"What's Snackr? It's an RSS ticker that pulls random items from your feeds and scrolls them across your desktop. When you see a title that looks interesting, you can click on it to pop up the item in a window. "
Six Sites: Is there a need for New Newsreader?
http://log.sixsites.com/post/31759431
"All the online newsreaders are so UGLY!"
Fling Media: Making Google Reader for Fluid
http://flingmedia.com/articles/making-google-reader-for-fluid
"Google Reader is ugly, but it works great as an online RSS newsreader. So what if I used Fluid.app to create a standalone Mac app and replace my desktop newsreader."
Wait, How Old Is My Kid Again?
http://www.pirnat.com/2008/04/22/wait-how-old-is-my-kid-again
"Then all that’s left is to cron it to run daily, and point your favorite RSS reader at the feed. Voila! You’re on top of exactly how old your kid is, and quickly on your way to becoming Parent of the Year."
How to Get an RSS Feed for your XBOX 360 Gamertag « // Internet Duct Tape
http://internetducttape.com/2008/03/31/how-to-get-an-rss-feed-for-your-xbox-360-gamertag
"My geek want of the day is getting an RSS feed of my Xbox 360 game activity so that I can use it with lifestreaming services."
Create RSS feeds from system log files | Mac Geekery
http://www.macgeekery.com/tips/create_rss_feeds_from_system_log_files
"With the advent of RSS readers that can use so-called “local feeds” for various reasons, it was inevitable that some code monkey would convert his 250K system.log file to RSS."
The Tao of Mac - An update on my RSS setup
http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2008/01/27/2203
"Over the past couple of years, I eventually got to the point where I would have something like 200-odd feeds subscribed and yet only 60 or so new items a day – the magic resided in a companion script that did Bayesian classification of that veritable f
Pipes: Page to Podcast
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=5Ju2awar3BGl1RQHiXrL0A
"This pipe extracts mp3 links from page, and makes Podcast."
Glibness — How to make an RSS feed where one never was
http://paul.irish.aurgasm.us/2007/how-to-make-an-rss-feed-where-one-never-was
"One feature [on del.icio.us] that hasn’t been implemented is notification of new people adding you to their network."
NewsGator’s RSS clients are now free! - Greg Reinacker’s Weblog - Musings on just about everything.
http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/2008/01/09/newsgators-rss-clients-are-now-free
"we’ve got new releases of our most popular applications: FeedDemon 2.6, NetNewsWire 3.1, Inbox 3.0 (beta), and NewsGator Go! for Windows Mobile 2.0"
Devthought - Guillermo Rauch’s Blog » WP-o-Matic. The Wordpress RSS Agreggator
http://devthought.com/wp-o-matic-the-wordpress-rss-agreggator
"WP-o-Matic makes autoblogging a snap by automatically creating posts from the RSS/Atom feeds you choose, which are organized into campaigns."
Wait till I come! » Blog Archive » Showing off your presentation slides with slideshare, PHP and a bit of JavaScript
http://www.wait-till-i.com/2007/10/31/showing-off-your-presentation-slides-with-slideshare-php-and-a-bit-of-javascript
"Taking this information it is pretty easy to build a viewer that allows people to click through all your presentations without having to leave your site."