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.

 

Read: Defining a microblog post

Read Defining a microblog post

I’m working on a new project around timelines and microblogs. It consumes RSS feeds, so I’ve been wondering how strict to be when accepting posts. What does microblog mean, anyway?
Wikipedia defines it this way: “Microblogging is a broadcast medium that exists in the form of blogging. A microblo…

Read: RSS for microblogs

Read RSS for microblogs

RSS is solid. It’s lasted a long time with very few changes, and forms the foundation for subscribing to weblogs and delivering podcasts. It’s huge and the open web is a much better place because RSS exists.
But even if RSS doesn’t need to change, some types of apps would be better off if we t…

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: On Reading Feeds #Indieweb Style

Read On Reading Feeds #Indieweb Style by Ton Zijlstra

This is a quick exploration of my current and preferred feed reading patterns. As part of my activities, for Day 2, the hack day, of IndieWebCamp Utrecht.
I currently use a stand alone RSS reader, which only consumes RSS feeds. I also experiment with TinyTinyRSS which is a self-hosted feed-grabber a…

Ton Zylstra talks about his feed reading habits as part of IndieWebCamp Utrecht.