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After a few years of laying fairly fallow I’ve got a bit of time to work on ScotEduBlogs.

The site had chuntered on mostly under its own steam for a while. Mostly auto-updating, all I need to do was to keep the site & domain up and running.

ScotEduBlogs is a site that aggregates and shares posts from Scots Educational Blogs running since 2007. It also posts out links, for the original posts, to mastodon and bluesky.

I’ve retired from teaching this summer so hopefully have a bit more time to promote the site. I’ve just added a few sites into the mix:

I am hoping to find some more, these sites have certainly increased the diversity of posts aggregated.

Why

  • I think it is valuable to read the voices of educators at all levels.
  • I am doing this as a ‘hobby’ I like blogs and blogging.
  • It doesn’t cost much. I am not making any money from SEB. The domain, hosting and a bit of time I can manage.
  • I am fascinated by the technology, especially RSS aggregation and re-distribution.
  • I like reading blogs.

Can you help?

I’d like to add more voices to the site. If you know an educational site with a feed (Blogs or substacks for example) please let me know about it. If you blog about education send me your site. You can fill in the form or send me an email.

Please pass this on, I am a lot less networked than I was in the noughties.

One of the main problems with SEB that is run by me. Andrew McLaughlin pointed this out a while back.

this currently hinges on centralised moderators to update and organise the aggregator.

I cannot say I disagree. I’ve never turned down a request for addition other than sites that, don’t support RSS or ones that are not about education in Scotland. Having seem the number of spam pages that have been created on the teachMeet Wiki I don’t think automatic inclusion is an option. But there is a need for more involvement, I’ve had ideas about that, and am open to discussion.

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Likes Blog Feeds by Steve Simkins.

The best part about blog feeds? It’s just an idea. There’s no central authority. There’s no platform. No massive tech giant trying to take your data. It’s just you, basic web standards, and the people you care about.

Love this. Via boost of Blain Smith’s toot by Alan is @cogdog I think Dave Winer would like it too!

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Likes It’s really simple by Dave Winer.

The name Really Simple Syndication is supposed to make you smile, while most techie formats make you want to pull your hair out. RSS reads pretty well even if you know nothing about feeds and XML. I wish the browser people hadn’t insisted on masking it with ugly CSS style sheets. I like lifting the hood of a car to see what’s there even though I don’t know what many of the things in there do. I learn by doing it

RSS continues to make me smile, thanks Dave.

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Likes Curate your own newspaper with RSS by Molly White.

Readers no longer see news articles from the journalists they chose to follow on Twitter as the site downranks any posts that link offsite. When they search on Google, they’re bombarded with error-ridden AI facsimiles before reaching the higher-quality underlying work. 

I enjoyed listening to the podcast version, feeling smug as a long time RSS reader. Spells out lots of new reasons for using RSS. Watching Ewan Macintosh use NetNewsWire on a train, before Wifi on trains, before smart phones, changed my digital life. I though then it might change everyone’s, maybe still will?

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I am still posting using WordLand from time to time. Dave Winer opened the service to everyone, on Friday. I’m reading round it as much as I can:

Aziz Poonawalla wrote a review to which Dave responded.

Andy Sylvester gave it a try, posting a video of his first use. Andy is thinking aloud, a process I always enjoy watching others do.

Manton noted:

its own RSS feeds outside of WordPress. The feeds have both HTML and Markdown. So you could build platforms (like Micro.blog!) that aggregate user feeds.

Manton Reece

Which points to the idea your blog could be, without the WordPress bit, an RSS feed that can be piped everywhere. For example: It could go to micro.blog and then be pushed on to lots of other places.

It has surprised me that WordPress does not have a bigger range of ways to post. I hope WordLand will start a trend. Personally I do not use one particular editor, depending on the type of post I am making.

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WordLand is where we start to boot up a simple social net using only RSS as the protocol connecting users. Rather than wait for ActivityPub and AT Proto to get their acts together. I think we can do it with feeds and start off with immediate interop without the complexity of federation. I call it the feediverse. It’s not a joke, although it may incite a smile and a giggle. And that’s ok

Scripting News: Saturday, February 22, 2025

Feediverse, what is not to like! WordLand, I’ve tested for a while. Something like that might be a good fit for Glow Blogs. A simple posting interface for busy teachers. See also pootlewriter.

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We want modern social media and public conversation online to work more like the early days of the web, where anyone could put up a blog or use RSS to subscribe to several blogs.

from: What is Bluesky? – Bluesky

I am reading around Bluesky this morning, some Glow Blogs research. This brought me up short. As far as I know anyone can ‘put up a blog or use RSS to subscribe to several blogs.’

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Likes The blogosphere is in full bloom. The rest of the internet has wilted by John Naughton.

How lovely to see Dave Winer’s 30 years blogging in the Observer on Sunday.

I either read or was told by a friend once that Dave Winer was always right if you waited long enough.

I certainly benefited from blogging, podcasting & RSS which Dave was pivotal in
Developing. I’ve also been lucky enough to play with some of Dave’s more recent tools which always makes you think.