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River of News
I’ve a new page: River of News an rss reader for some of my favourite feeds.
I’ve been testing Scott Hanson’s plugin that pulls in a River of News from Feedland River Embed for FeedLand, for a while. It is now available on WordPress.org so easy to install. It pulls in news from a set of blogs on a Feedland server.
A river of news is:
River of News is a kind of RSS aggregator.#
Items are presented in reverse-chronologic order.#
Each item has a headline, short description, a link to the story, links to the website and feed it came from, a link to its enclosure if it has one, when it was published, when it appeared in the river. #
What is a River of News aggregator?
FeedLand is a web service for managing lists of feeds, sharing them with other users, both in and outside of FeedLand, and reading and sharing news.
The goal of FeedLand is to make news a social thing, following the pattern of social media apps, but using open formats and protocols.
So FeedLand is feeds, news and people and software that connects it all together.
FeedLand: Getting started with FeedLand
Feedland was created by Dave Winer.
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I love my RSS reader. It’s the first thing I reach for when I’m “catching up.” As I’m reading through my list of feed items, I often come across blog posts that do not give me any way to interact with the post!
♥ RSS – A directory of people who love RSS
Put the badge on your homepage and submit your URL. Once we’ve checked the link back and found your feed, you’re on the list — and in an OPML subscription list any reader can subscribe to in one action
♥ RSS
rss chat
I’ve been following the development of rss.chat on Dave Winer’s Scripting.com for a while. Dave set up a limited example at chat.rss and now an open one at https://demo.rss.chat which I joined. There dosen’t seem to be a promise that this particular server will stay up, but it offers the chance to try and explore.
rss.chat is a social network:
- Every user has an RSS feed with all their posts.
- The whole community has an RSS feed.
- There is an OPML file that lists all the users.
You can subscribe to those feeds if you want.
Introducing rss.chat – daveverse
from the same page:
I envision a world of small communities, running on small servers. We haven’t released the code for this yet, but will, under an MIT license.
Which is interesting. I remember, when I started using micro.blog, one of my thoughts was that it was the perfect model for a small community with particular interests. At the time I was thinking of education. I love everything about micro.blog but I do not see many there with my interests in education. As I understand it, Dave has no intention in supporting all of micro.blog’s features. In fact I think he hopes that other people will used the spec and concept to create different things:
Don’t think of this as a product Rob. Think about features you want in other people’s products. Think of this as a source of feeds, not a destination for them.
https://demo.rss.chat/?id=108
This is a very interesting way to think about a new piece of software. There are also some interesting ideas on the github issues including mentions of webmentions and WordPress.
I know, the ones without ads are mostly out on the long tail, but what matters is that anybody can podcast on the Net, just like anybody can publish there. RSS—really simple syndication—gives all of us scale. This is, as Kurt Vonnegut once said , a miracle on the order of loaves and fish. It’s foundational.
The Other Reasons Why Podcasting is Hot
🐻 Bears Repeating
Add any public account from Instagram, Facebook, Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, X, TikTok or YouTube to quickly get a feed that you can add to your favorite reader.
from: ByeDoom — Give a Link → Get a Feed
This works, I got it from Alan’s dogged following & sharing of RSS information, tips & tricks. Great way to follow family on instagram. I’ve given it a quick test. Interesting that the feeds from instagram show images in Inoreader, but not in NetNewsWire or Feedland which both just show a title.
What is radio? Kind of an early form of podcasting
Scripting News: Times I’ve been ambushed at conferences
Priceless aside by Dave Winer, @dave
Bonus link from Dave : Attard and McHugh on podcasting’s democratic dream
ScotsEduBlogs Update
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:
- Blue Collar whose author submitted the form, first in a while.
- The Interdisciplinary Learning Network this blog moved from WordPress to Substack, with permission I added the feed from there.
- Memory and Metacognition Updates Jonathan Firth moved to Substack too.
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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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!