Tag Archives: RSS

Fixing My Feed From Sacha

I’ve been following Sacha Chua for a long time. I think I started while she was still at University but it was certainly shortly afterwards at the latest. She’s been at it for about 25 years so it’s hard for … Continue reading

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RSS Readers

Following up on my recent posts about RSS [1, 2] here’s an article on everything (and probably more) that you ever wanted to know about RSS readers. It turns out that there’s all sorts of readers: paid, hosted, self hosted, … Continue reading

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Why RSS Is The Right Thing

Tom Burkert has a nice post in which he extols the virtues of RSS. You might wonder what there is to extol. RSS is a simple protocol—the “simple” is in its name, after all—and it’s pretty easy to implement. That … Continue reading

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How RSS Beat Microsoft

As many of you know, I’m a big fan of RSS and use it everyday to scour the Internet for potential Irreal topics and also just for topics that I find interesting or useful. I was there at the beginning—although … Continue reading

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Escape From Walled Gardens With RSS

I am not on Facebook. I’ve never been on Facebook. I’m not on Twitter/X. I’ve never been on them. My entire social media profile consists of Irreal. I’ve always had an aversion to things like Facebook and Twitter without really … Continue reading

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RSS for the Researcher

At the beginning of his Elfeed video, John Kitchen mentioned a paper by James Fraser on RSS for the researcher. This is notable for two reasons. First, there’s the paper itself, of course, but there’s also the very nice way … Continue reading

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Why Use RSS

Marc Kydd has a post from last month that I’ve had in the queue to write about. His post is on why he still uses RSS. I’m always a bit surprised by posts like that because why wouldn’t you use … Continue reading

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