via Stephen Downes
June 2019
The Feed Handbook is now live!
For some time, I have wanted to provide a collection of information on RSS (Really Simple Syndication). After some delay, I now present – The Feed Handbook. This site is a set of topic pages, along with a blog to document updates. Currently, I have the following topics:
- Introduction
- Feed Formats
- Feed Readers
- Feed Tools
My next topic will be Feed Sources (where to find feeds), and I am sure there will be more after that. If anyone has anything they would like to see include, contact me at the email address on the home page. Enjoy!
I have published a new collection of RSS resources at FeedHandbook.com – check it out! More detailed post coming out in a few minutes.
Read: My Ideal RSS Reader
Triggered by some of the previous postings on RSS, I started thinking about what my ideal set-up for RSS reading would be. Because maybe there’s a way to create that for myself.
A description of how I approach my feeds, and what I would ideally like to be able to do, I already penned a decade ago,…
Read: Tools are more valuable when they are connected
Jerome Velociter has an interesting riff on how Diaspora, Mastodon and similar decentralised and federated tools are failing their true potential (ht Frank Meeuwsen).
He says that these decentralised federated applications are trying to mimic the existing platforms too much.
They are attempts at reb…
Read: Losing your online persona
I keep a bulging plastic bin under my bed filled with diaries I’ve had since elementary school. They are an archive of my life, literal baggage I tote around from apartment to apartment as an adult…
By now, people should be aware that anything they post to a service they do not have control over or cannot easily back up is vulnerable to loss….wake up people!
Read: Feed Reading by Social Distance
At the Crafting {:} a Life unconference one of the things that came up in our conversations was how you take information in, while avoiding the endlessly scrolling timelines of FB and Twitter as well as FOMO. My description of how I read feeds ‘by social distance‘ was met with curiosity and ‘c…
Another excellent post, I am going to join the conversation…
Read: Crafting A Blog
With so many old school bloggers in the room, discussions about blogging were imminent during Crafting {:} a Life. Some never stopped blogging, but were lonely writers for a long time, such as Peter. Others have moved their writing to the corporate silo of Facebook, and then there are people who ref…
I really liked this sentence:
For me blogging has always been about thinking out loud, because only when I try to formulate my ideas, I actually know what I’m thinking.
Read: Three conversations about blogging
At last week’s Crafting {:} a Life unconference on PEI I participated in three conversations on blogging: What happened to blogging? Initiated by Steven Garrity The future of blogging. Initiated by Peter Rukavina Doing Blogging. Initiated by me
Elmine already blogged some of her impressions from t…
This unconference account is really interesting, will need to blog further about it…
Read: How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer
Design shortcuts meant to make a new plane seem like an old, familiar one are to blame