Activity tagged "RSS"

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Not drowning in the RSS firehose

In ShopTalk, Chris and Dave talked about my recent post about RSS, and the curation challenge posed by RSS when you mix together high-volume feeds like The Verge with more infrequent posters (solo bloggers, etc).

This is partly why I have a "news" feed that's separate from my "newsletters" feed in my blogroll: the "news" feed is typically for high-volume outlets with multiple writers who publish multiple times a day, whereas newsletters tend to be solo or small groups of writers publishing ~weekly.

By separating them, I avoid ~weekly posters getting drowned out in a firehose of more frequent news. It's a little more up-front curation, but it works well!

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Cool blogroll project courtesy of Dave Winer . I like that it sorts based on recent posts, and shows a preview of those posts inline.

Blogrolls were a common feature in early websites. A list of blogs you follow. A checklist of places to look at. Advertising our web friendships. Blogrolls were the beginning of today's social web. It's time to take a fresh look at the humble blogroll.