Our obsession with organising everything around the latest content may be destroying the greatest value the web holds.
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A collection of 24 posts
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 an update, could find new updates at a glance, and…
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.…
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…
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…
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’…
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…