I just read this on OLDaily ~ by Stephen Downes in my RSS reader. Points to apparently YouTube has decided to allow users to follow channels via RSS again, from: YouTube has (apparently) reinstated RSS feeds – BiteofanApple It seems to work, I’ve aded my own channel to my RSS reader, Inoreader, and it worked […]

Last evening I noticed on twitter: We’re live with the #TWP15 google hangout #WordPress support clinic. https://t.co/54NSLs7Izj and https://t.co/AYVtFEVPKY — Rich (@richardtape) June 18, 2015 And jumped in without thinking too much. Rich (@richardtape) was providing drop in support on a Google Hangout. Rich works at University of British Columbia which is, of course, organizing […]

I woke up the other morning morning to a bit of serendipity in my RSS reader that cheered me up. First I read Alan’s great post Don’t Be a Platform Pawn. Next up was Marco Arment Linking and quoting Waffle on Social Media which quoted in turn Community Services which pointed to What’s a Twitter […]

There are only a few days until Google Reader grinds or snaps to a halt. I can’t say I am ecstatic about this but I have been doing a little planning and thinking. My current use of RSS and google reader is as follows: I read, I bookmark to pinboard, tweet links, collect some articles […]

Newspaper dog thinking RSS by stylianosm Attribution License Over the last few days I’ve been reading a lot of blog posts about the passing of Google Reader. Although it has been apparent for a while that google was not really interested in reader I was very upset to hear this. Google Reader has become central […]

Cort Hanselmann argues Every developer should have a blog.: Your words are wasted – Scott Hanselman giving good reasons for owning your own domain. Works if you replace developer with learner too.

“Twitter seems to be reaching new people who will likely never get on board with RSS.” This is true. But RSS will still be around when Twitter is dead. – Open standards – Decentralized – Not owned by a private company – Real URL’s instead of hashbangs RSS is dead. Long live RSS. via mjtsai.com […]