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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.

 

How can we work together on the open web and on software development

I have been in several conversations in the last week (voice and email) where the concept of “working together” in software development came up, and several threads emerged:

  • how the original developer doesn’t/shouldn’t have to do everything – others can contribute (to me, a key concept in open source)
  • how interested/engaged users can be an important force in the direction in which a software application or tool goes forward

Dave Winer has written about this many times:

I have tried to follow that second point in several ways:

I am getting ready to start working in the computer music area again after a long absence, and I am reviewing available tools to see if they fit the areas I am interested in. In that way, I am trying to practice the concepts of working together as I have outlined above.

Anyone want to work together with me? Let me know!

Rocking with River4: Lesson 4 – River4/Amazon S3/Heroku Setup

The next installment in my series of videos on the River4 feed reader by Dave Winer shows how to see your River4 rivers online. This video covers several topics:

  • Setting up an account on the Amazon S3 storage service
  • DNS setup for domain name
  • Github account setup
  • River4 setup
  • Heroku setup and deploy of the River4 app

Links referred to in the video are listed at the end of this post, after the video.

Amazon Web Services: http://aws.amazon.com

Creating a S3 bucket:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/gsg/CreatingABucket.html

Bucket policies:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/example-bucket-policies.html

Subscription lists:

http://river4.smallpict.com/2014/09/20/exampleSubscriptionLists.html

Example river website: http://rivertest.andysylvester.com/