💬 Flogging the Dead Horse of RSS

Replied to Flogging the Dead Horse of RSS – Ideas and Thoughts (ideasandthoughts.org)

Apparently, RSS has some valid uses as well but like most everyone I tend to use social as a place to find new and emerging ideas. But I also think using Twitter and Facebook to haphazardly find content lacks intention and depth. I also value reading a person’s blog over time to understand better their voice and context. So I’m asking for some advice on how to update my module on finding research. What replaces RSS feeds? What works for you that goes beyond “someone on Twitter/Facebook shared….” to something that is more focused and intentional?

It feels like there has been a bit of resurgence when it comes to RSS lately. I wrote about it last year, Alan Levine has been doing alchemy, Aral Balkan has been reclaiming it, Tom Woodward has been doing jujitsu and Chris Aldrich has created his own feeds.

My takeaways have been:

Store your feed somewhere else. I store mine in WordPress and also sign up to some of Chris Aldrich’s feeds.
Use a reader that allows users to subscribe to an external OPML (I use Inoreader)
Create custom feeds based on tags and categories (or Post Kinds)

Another post that might be worth diving into is Chris Aldrich’s Feed Reader Revolution.

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2 responses on “💬 Flogging the Dead Horse of RSS”

canion says:

July 14, 2018 at 8:58 pm

@amit I used to use Feedwrangler, then went with Feedly. Now I’m with Inoreader.

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