David Yates: “Damn. If only there was some system which allowed you to follow updates to blogs and websites you care about in a manner that ensured you never missed an update, could find new updates at a glance, and…
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A collection of 10 posts
A first look at Apple News
It’s interesting to note that it has a “For You” option, just like [Apple Music](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2015/07/apple-music-curation-discovery-algorithems.html). That suggests we’ll see the same mix of algorithmic and human curation in the…
Feedly criminally DDoSed in extortion scheme
RSS reader service Feedly has been down for most of the day: 2:04am PST – Criminals are attacking feedly with a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). The attacker is trying to extort us money to make it stop. We…
Feedly goes pro
Encouraging news this morning. Feedly – my RSS reader of choice in this post-Google Reader age – has launched a Pro plan. Well, semi-launched one, anyway. Pro accounts will be $5 per month from the autumn, but 5,000 people can buy…
That's all she read: Google Reader RIP
Google Reader last night: Google Reader this morning: You know, I thought I’d mourn, but I’m actually enjoying the revived ecosystem of apps and RSS Readers. It makes me wonder what other innovation is being stifled by Google’…
Rekindling the RSS fire?
A quick addendum to last night’s post – a quick cut of the analytics data from my blog shows Feedly and the Old Reader emerging as growing referrers over the last couple of weeks. I am really enjoying seeing the…
Remember: Google Reader dies in 48 hours…
If you’re reading this post in Google Reader – or an app that syncs with Google Reader – the you have around 48 hours to find a replacement. Google Reader dies on Monday. I’ve just written a post for NEXT…
My Google Reader replacement: Feedly
I was on a bus in London on Friday, on my way to a meeting at City University, when I saw this tweet from my co-visitor there, Paul Bradshaw: Still haven’t settled on an RSS reader to replace #googlereader…