Sebastiaan AndewegOh IndieWebCamp. You come with a few things you want to for your own website, then you do some completely other things, and after that you leave with an even longer list of things to do for your own website.
This year is marked as the ‘Year of the Reader’, and indeed, there was a lot of Reader t…
Is there any good way to follow writers on a bunch of diff websites, so anytime they post a story I see a link or something in a single feed?
This resulted in a series of over 40 replies with recommendations for feed reader apps and generally using RSS. I added my own reply for rivers of news.
Next, a post from Cal Newport (saw this via Brad Enslen):
As any serious blog consumer can attest, a carefully curated blog feed, covering niches that matter to your life, can provide substantially more value than the collectivist ping-ponging of likes and memes that make up so much of social media interaction.
Wow! This from a person who acknowledges that he does not participate on social networks, but lets it slip that he uses RSS!
Case in point: I’ve never had a social media account, and yet I constantly enjoy connecting to people, and posting and monitoring information using digital networks.
Finally, Brad Enslen has a series of posts dealing with blogging, social media and RSS:
What do you think?
Google Reader five years dead
Five years ago, on July 1st 2013, Google killed their Google Reader. It was then probably the most used way to keep track of websites through RSS.
RSS allows you to see the latest articles from a website, and thus makes it easier to keep track of many different blogs an…
Chris AldrichIf you missed it, here are slides with links and resources for my IndieWeb and WordPress presentation at WordCamp Riverside 2018. Video coming soon. Thanks to everyone who came and participated. I’m happy to answer any additional questions.
Wow! Audience is fascinated by @ChrisAldrich and his pres…
Chris AldrichI’ve spent some time this morning thinking about the deplatforming of the abhorrent social media site Gab.ai by Google, Apple, Stripe, PayPal, and Medium following the Tree of Life shooting in Pennsylvania. I’ve created a deplatforming page on the IndieWeb wiki with some initial background and h…
