Feed Readers

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Interesting  news reading workflow from Frank McPherson:

@brentsimmons I use River5 and when I find something I want to read I send it to Radio3 to add it to an RSS feed that is monitored by IFTTT to add to Instapaper. Basically it’s my replacement for Radio Userland. I am nervous about being dependent on Dave to keep Radio3 running.

Announcing the Media Feed Project

In a recent post, I commented on an idea from Dave Winer on providing a definitive list of RSS feeds for new organizations, and trying to get universities involved. I decided to take some action on my own, and created the Media Feed Project website and Github repo. The content in the OPML files at the Github repo are from my prior work on a news site called FullBlastNews.com. If anyone has RSS feed lists for news organizations, I would be interested in getting a copy. Let me know!

 

Want to help creating RSS reading lists for news orgs?

This morning, I saw a tweet from Dave Winer responding to a Emily Bell and Aron Pilhofer thread on making news story data available for public understanding. Dave made the following comment:

Emily, Aron — I’ve followed the other thread. Interesting. Here’s something useful that could help right away. A collection of RSS feeds from news orgs, maintained, with metadata. Something a group of j-school students, maybe even from different unis, could do. 😉

I added this to the thread:

I have a start at this, see http://andysylvester.com/files/reading_lists/…, these lists are used by River5 to power http://fullblastnews.com

Several years ago, I created lists for print media, news networks, video from news networks, and collections on other topics for a demonstration site called FullBlastNews.com. It was meant to show off River4 (at the time) and use of tabs to switch between different news rivers. Some of the navigation is having some problems now, but the rivers still run….

I am publishing my reading lists/rivers lists/RSS lists URL to help jump start this, I am not sure if Aron or Emily or Dave will take any action, but I will be following this conversation to see where it leads.

 

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!

 

Read: My Ideal RSS Reader

Read My Ideal RSS Reader by Ton Zijlstra

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: Feed Reading by Social Distance

Read Feed Reading By Social Distance by Ton Zijlstra

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…