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!

since i was writing for a general audience i only tucked in a short paragraph about using RSS as a journalist or researcher, but i genuinely have no idea how anyone functions without it.

sometimes in an interview someone will ask me for my “secret” for staying on top of crypto news, and the secret is literally just RSS

“Curate your own newspaper with RSS”

For anyone looking to adjust their media diet, now’s a great time to consider escaping The Algorithms with RSS. My blogroll lists some of the blogs, newsletters, and independent news sites I follow.

For feed readers,  I use Inoreader, but there are many other good options.

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

This is awesome. paulcuth made a site where you can enter your fediverse handle and it identifies RSS feeds produced by the people you follow! The site URL is a great touch, too.