Getting started again with rssCloud

Andrew Shell contacted me recently to mention that he has his rssCloud server online – nice! rssCloud uses the <cloud> element in RSS 2.0 to connect a loosely-coupled Twitter-like network of people and 140-character status messages. I went through my archives (looks like I last looked at this in 2015 and 2016) and notes, and found that I had a copy of a script (Github Gist link) Dave Winer wrote as a test app in 2015. I uploaded it to my current server, modified it to point to my current domain, and found that it was able to register with the rssCloud server and get updates on the feed listed in the test app – excellent! I plan to review the rssCloud Walkthrough document to guide my next steps.

Resources:

https://gist.github.com/scripting/dbb07695736de85b3882 – Dave Winer test app for Andrew Shell server

https://blog.andrewshell.org/2020-02/18/updating-rsscloud-server/ – Update on rssCloud server

http://rpc.rsscloud.io:5337/ – Running instance of server

https://blog.josephscott.org/2009/09/07/rsscloud-for-wordpress/ – Info on rssCloud plugin for WordPress

https://wordpress.org/plugins/rsscloud/ – Current plugin page for rssCloud WordPress plugin

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/rsscloud/ – Current SVN repo for rssCloud WordPress plugin

http://home.rsscloud.co/ – New home page for rssCloud info

http://walkthrough.rsscloud.co/ – Implementers Guide to rssCloud

https://github.com/rsscloud/rsscloud-server – rssCloud server source code by Andrew Shell

https://andysylvester.com/2015/11/22/learning-something-new-can-be-hard/ – My 2015 post on rssCloud work

http://notes.andysylvester.com/2016/08/07/exploringRsscloudAndPubsubhubbub.html – My 2016 post on rssCloud work