Free Post freshness Recency is killing the web - and we'll all lose if that happens Our obsession with organising everything around the latest content may be destroying the greatest value the web holds.
Free Post Atom RSS - the forgotten productivity tool that still works 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
Free Post feeds The internet's breaking (Yahoo) Pipes The news that Yahoo is killing Yahoo Pipes has been met with more than a little mockery: NOOOOO, NOT YAHOO PIPES! — Marco Arment (@marcoarment) June 4, 2015 (At least I assume it’s mockery. It’s hard to tell sometimes.) It’s easy to
Free Post blogging 15 million die-hard RSS aficionados Martin Belam: And despite the die-hard afficianados, RSS is no longer a key content distribution channel. Of course, with some amusement, I read this in my RSS reader of choice. He’s right in that RSS never became a mainstream means of consumption (indeed,
Free Post criminals 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 refused to give in
Free Post feed readers 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’s dominant position.
Free Post admin 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 Berlin outlining some options
Free Post feed readers 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 – Netvibes doesn’t seem
Free Post feeds Building my own iPad magazine every morning In 2001, when I first became aware of blogging and RSS feeds, I used to speculate about magazines of the future, built of feeds which allowed you to select the reporters, reviewers and commenters that mattered to you. In recent years, I’ve used
Free Post feeds Google Reader: making feeds unreadable Today has been filled with people howling in protest at the changes to Google Reader – and I just didn’t notice the difference. But then, I rarely actually log into the interface; the majority of my consumption is done using the Reeder app, which
Free Post feeds The Times opens up (a little) Talking of RSS, I note than some more changes have hit everyone’s favourite paywalled enterprise, The Times online. First up, the blogs now have a free-to-air front page, and the main page is also available to view. Here’s Ruth Gledhill’s Articles
Free Post apps Rumours of RSS's demise are greatly exaggerated So, I missed that whole “RSS is dead, I tell you! Dead! DEAD!” meme that made the rounds a few weeks ago, by virtue of being on holiday. I’m glad, frankly, because attention-grabbing link bait by tech bloggers in pretty low down on
Free Post Atom Real Time Web Reality A little while ago, I was flicking through feeds in Newsrack on my iPad. I chose to share an article via Twitter, in the application. I pressed send – and saw the Tweet pop up immediately in Seesmic Desktop II on my work Dell laptop,
Free Post advertising Afternoon Coffee Reading - 9th March 2010 Let’s start with something that’s as much a public information message for the blogosphere as a link: [Why Blog and Comment Spam isn’t Going Away](http://www.yelvington.com/content/why-blog-and-comment-spam-isnt-going-away)Onwards to linkorama:- [News has become a social experience]
Free Post What's Hot in my Feed Reader Right Now?  Not bad after 5 days…
